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Memorandum to: Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the U. S. State Department, the FBI, and President-Elect Obama

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Muhammad Tabir Tabassum, Jane Perlez, U. S. State Department, Senator Edward. M. Kennedy, Pakistan, Kashmir, New York Times, Fbi, Nicholas D. Kristof, Inspad, Politics News

When I called my senator's office three months ago, I spoke to a sweet intern there. He promised to have Senator Kennedy's foreign affairs people get back to me. They did not.

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FBI Investigating Hundreds Of Phony War Heroes

ABC News | VIC WALTER and ANNA SCHECTER | Posted 11.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Fbi Investigating Phony War Heroes, Phony War Heroes, War Wire, Fbi, Veterans Day, Home News

On a day when Americans honor those who have served their country in the military, many of whom have been wounded, physically and emotionally by war, ...

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FBI Tracked David Halberstam For More Than Two Decades

AP | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Fbi Tracked David Halberstam, Fbi, Fbi File David Halberstam, Fbi David Halberstam, David Halberstam, Media News

NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Report: FBI kept file on writer David Halberstam

AP | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: David Halberstam, David Halberstam FBI File, David Halberstam FBI, Fbi, Media News

NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Now That Election Is Over, Its Back To The Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.04.2008 | Business

Read More: White Collar Crime, Blame Game, Plunder, Justice Department, Economy, Eliot Spitzer, Fbi, Alan Greenspan, Business News

When Spitzer and his counterparts began investigating large mortgage companies, it became clear that if there was a crime going on, and it was massive and institutional, not just individual.

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Life Sentence for Al-Qaeda Propagandist Fails to Justify Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Maj. Tom Fleener, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Fbi, Lackawanna Six, Military Commissions Act, Col. Ronald Gregory, Maj. David Frakt, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

In any credible court system, the eve-of-election conviction of an associate of Osama bin Laden for producing promotional material for al-Qaeda, which...

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Officials Disagree Over F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney Involvement in Nevada ACORN Investigation

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

Spokespeople for Nevada's top federal and state law enforcement authorities have staked out different positions when asked whether federal officials a...

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FBI Arrests 600 People, Rescues 47 Children In Massive US Child Prostitution Rings

AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Child Prostitution Ring, Fbi, Us Child Prostitution, Fbi Bust Us Child Prostitution Ring, Home News

WASHINGTON — More than 600 adults have been arrested and 47 children rescued in a three-day roundup targeting people who force children into pro...

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Talking With The F.B.I.'s Undercover Source In Alaska's VECO Corruption Case

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cbc, Corruption, Ted Stevens, Lott, Begich, Surveillance, Mccain, Don Young, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Craig, Nicholas Cage, Perps, Inouye, Mark Begich, Oil Executives, Moose Poop, Alaska, Tasergate, Prewitt, Conviction, Democrat, Congress, Cunningham, 08, Bridge to Nowhere, Investigation, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Person of Interest, Alaskanisms, Barack, Jack Nicholson, Murkowski, Troopergate, Vice President, Court Case, Guilty Plea, Joe Biden 2008, Duke, Obama, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, Stevens, 2008 Campaign, Alaskan Politics, Corrupt Bastards Club, Confidential Source, Frank Murkowski, John McCain, Last Bridge to Nowhere, Hats, Frank Prewitt, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, State Representative, Oil Companies, Delay, Witness, 08 Campaign, Convicted, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Fbi, Veco, State Senator, Politics News

Prewitt: "It's going to be a tight race, but Stevens could still win this thing. Stevens has been around so long, and we do have a very partisan situation up here in Alaska."

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FBI Struggling To Handle Wave Of Financial Fraud Cases

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU, DAVID JOHNSTON and RON NIXON | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Financial Fraud, Financial Fraud Cases, Fbi, Business News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the country's economi...

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ACORN Isn't Obama's Swiftboat, But It Can Distract

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Gop. 527 Committees, Barack Obama, Justice Department, Vote Fraud, Fbi, Democrats, Presidency, Voter Registration Drive, John McCain, Politics News

The attack against the ACRON is old news: GOP officials and politicians have trotted out the allegations of an ACORN voter hijack plot since 2006.

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FBI: McCain Camp ACORN Statement "Too Political For Us To Be Involved"

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, John McCain, Obama Acorn, Mccain Acorn, Barack Obama, Fbi, FBI ACORN, Politics News

Late Thursday afternoon, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sent out a statement seeking to piggy-back on the news that the FBI has opened a nationwid...

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Homeland Insecurity: How Washington Politicians Have Made America Less Safe

Terry Turchie and Kathleen Puckett | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Politics, Cia, National Security, Richard Nixon, John Edwards, 9/11, Fbi, Beltway, Politics News

The FBI -- which protects civil rights at the same time it ensures national security -- is being systematically taken apart by politicians whose power and position are threatened by FBI investigations.

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Exclusive Interview: Frank Prewitt, Author Of Last Bridge To Nowhere

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cbc, Corruption, Ted Stevens, Begich, Surveillance, Mccain, Don Young, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Craig, Nicholas Cage, Perps, Mark Begich, Oil Executives, Moose Poop, Alaska, Conviction, Democrat, Congress, 08, Bridge to Nowhere, Investigation, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Person of Interest, Barack, Jack Nicholson, Murkowski, Troopergate, Vice President, Court Case, Guilty Plea, Joe Biden 2008, Duke, Obama, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, Stevens, 2008 Campaign, Alaskan Politics, Corrupt Bastards Club, Confidential Source, Frank Murkowski, John McCain, Last Bridge to Nowhere, Hats, Frank Prewitt, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, State Representative, Oil Companies, Delay, Witness, 08 Campaign, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Fbi, State Senator, Lott, Inouye, Tasergate, Prewitt, Cunningham, Alaskanisms, Veco, Politics News

Prewitt: The book is my experience working as the confidential source who spent nearly four years helping the F.B.I. pry the lid open on the sordid world of political corruption in Alaska and Washington.

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Calling Bill Ayers a "Terrorist" Doesn't Make Him So

Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Terrorism, Economy, Sarah Palin, Bill Ayers, Fbi, Joe Biden, Weather Underground, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Sarah Palin has been out there saying Obama is friends with Ayers, "a domestic terrorist." In response, Obama has accurately pointed out that Ayers committed his actions over forty years ago, when Obama was eight years old.

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Domestic Wiretapping First Hand Account: NSA Listened To Phone Sex

ABC | BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Civil Liberties, Domestic Wiretapping, Sex, Phone Sex, Wiretapping, Fbi, Domestic Spying, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropp...

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Did Lehman Bros. Lie to Investors?

ProPublica | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Fuld, Lehman Brothers, Fbi, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

Boosterism is one thing. Fudging the books is another. According to the Journal, two Wall Street execs concluded that the "firm's real-estate valuations are roughly 35 percent higher than they should be."

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The FBI to the Rescue

ProPublica | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Operation Malicious Mortgage, American International Group, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Fbi, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

The FBI is probing four of the stricken companies at the center of the current financial crisis, but the reason for the haziness is abundantly clear: they don't seem to have a clear indication that a crime might have been committed.

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Rule by Thieves

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

We, the taxpayers, will be the ones to pay the bill when it comes due.

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Palin Email Hacking Case Results In FBI Search Of Apartment

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Emails, Sarah Palin Emails Hacked, Fbi, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The FBI searched the residence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence linking...

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New FBI Rules Would Make Domestic Surveillance Even Easier

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Wiretapping, Fbi, Justice Department, Justice Department Spying, Domestic Spying, Politics News

The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on na...

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FBI's Civil Rights Initiative: No Trials Yet

AP | DEBORAH HASTINGS | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Civil Rights, Fbi Civil Rihts Initiative, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with consi...

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A-Space: CIA, FBI Push "Facebook For Spies"

CNN | Larry Shaughnessy | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: A-Space Cia Fbi, Facebook for Spies, Cia, Fbi, A-Space, Facebook, A Space, Politics News

When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. But that's not...

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FBI May Start Spying On Americans "Without Any Basis For Suspicion"

NY Times | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism Investigations Civil Liberties, Fbi Greater Powers, Fbi Spying on Americans, Fbi, Fbi Terrorism Investigations, Fbi Terrorism Powers, Fbi Investigate Without Suspicion, Fbi National Security Powers, Justice Department Fbi Plan, Politics News

A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal inv...

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Not Uma. . . Una!

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Style, Decor, Cabins, Ted Kaczynski, Newseum, Civil Rights, Fbi, Unambomber, Living News

In a hand-written letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, the infamous Unabomber, whose bombs killed three people and injured 23 others, objected to the FBI's loan of his cabin to the Newseum.

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