Home » Topics » FBI (Page 15)
FBI admits probing ‘radical’ historian Zinn for criticizing bureau
FBI files show bureau may have tried to get Zinn fired from Boston University for his political opinions Those who knew of the dissident historian Howard Zinn would not be surprised that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI kept tabs on him for decades during the Cold War. But in a release…
NYT: Democrats in Congress should remind Obama of his campaign promises
Senator Pat Leahy promises hearings into White House request for expanded surveillance powers News that the White House has asked for a “clarification” in current law which would make it easier for the FBI to obtain private email and web browsing records without a court order has run into strong…
White House pushes for warrantless access to Internet records
Attorney speculates data could include Facebook friend requests The White House has asked Congress to make it possible for the FBI to demand that Internet service providers turn over customers’ records in cases involving terrorism or other intelligence issues without first obtaining a court order. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act…
Hundreds of FBI agents probed over cheating on surveillance test
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau’s policies, an embarrassing revelation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. The Justice Department inspector…
APNewsBreak: FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed
APNewsBreak: FBI says cyber mastermind of botnet arrested in Slovenia, more arrests planned. International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials told The Associated Press…
South Park hater charged with trying to join Somali Shebab
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A 20-year-old US national has been arrested and charged with trying to join Somalia’s Shebab militants, the latest in a slew of homegrown extremism cases in the United States. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, was charged Wednesday in a criminal complaint that he provided material support to Shebab,…
FBI releases files on Ted Kennedy death threats
WASHINGTON  The FBI released 2,200 pages of documents Monday from its files on Edward Kennedy detailing death threats made against the late senator in the decades after the assassinations of his two brothers. The murders of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Senator Bobby Kennedy nearly five years…
Official alleges Mexico moved evidence to make US look worse in teen’s killing
UPDATE: With anger boiling over in Mexico at the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy at the hands of a US border guard Monday, US officials have been scrambling to deflect criticism and paint the dead teenager as a risk to US security — and Mexican authorities as uncooperative. A…
Border agent shoots and kills 14-year-old boy on US side of international bridge: report
“An emergency radio broadcast to El Paso police at 6:43 p.m. stated a Border Patrol agent had fired into a crowd of people.” LATEST: Updated AP story: “Agents detaining suspected illegal immigrants Monday came under assault from rock throwers across the border in Mexico, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said.” National…
Exclusive: FBI probed Harvey Milk, George Moscone prior to their murders
Federal agents were investigating the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and the late mayor of San Francisco George Moscone for alleged political corruption when both men were murdered in November 1978, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation files. The man convicted of killing both men, then-Supervisor Dan White, was…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Why should Apple have access to consumers if it refuses to pay its fair share of taxes?
- Anti-Muslim violence rises in England after soldier’s death
- Boy Scouts face possible exodus after lifting ban on gay members
- ‘Arrested Development’ online skit gets musical spoof
- France seizes a million doses of fake Chinese aspirin
- More than 200 evacuated, one dead as record flooding lashes San Antonio
- ‘March Against Monsanto’ protests attract millions worldwide
- John Kerry tells Egyptian president: Show us your reforms
- Visa and Mastercard ask federal court to legalize transaction fees
- Rights group urges United Arab Emirates not to deport striking immigrants
Commentary
Sexual harasser learns same old excuses don’t work anymore
By Amanda Marcotte
Why should Apple have access to consumers if it refuses to pay its fair share of taxes?
By Robert Reich, The Observer
It’s time to make sure our veterans get the care they need
By Nora Eisenberg
![["Men's Tears. Marine U.S. Army In Sorrow. Soldier'S Longing. Love Of Country. Sadness For The Victims" on Shutterstock]](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Army-soldiers-in-Afghanistan-via-AFP-230x105.jpg "sad soldier shutterstock")
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
