FBI director must answer to Congress over Capitol riot
March 2, 2021
Questions are expected on what happened to communications and warnings of impending violence in the Jan. 6 riot
Comey target of watchdog probe
January 13, 2017
FBI Director James Comey, already under fierce public scrutiny for his handling of the election-year probe of Hillary Clinton, faces a new internal investigation into
Anonymous hackers breaching government computers
November 18, 2013
Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign
More airborne terror ahead?
August 23, 2013
The nature of terrorism has changed in Robert Mueller‘s dozen years as FBI director, but his concerns for the future are much the same as
IRS manual revealed how to doctor facts
August 7, 2013
Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published
Criminal charges filed in Benghazi attack
August 7, 2013
The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two U.S. officials said
FBI rescues 105 children
July 30, 2013
Declaring child prostitution a “persistent threat” in America, the FBI said Monday that authorities had rescued 105 young people and arrested 150 alleged pimps in
Federal oversight board hears testimony on NSA spying on Americans
July 9, 2013
The federal oversight board directed by President Barack Obama to scrutinize the government’s secret surveillance system is hearing from civil liberties activists, a retired federal
Intel officials claim NSA spying on Americans revealed terrorist plots
June 16, 2013
Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in
Government says 300 phone numbers ‘closely investigated’ in spy program
June 16, 2013
The U.S. government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected