All posts tagged "Federal Bureau Of Investigation"

The Justice Department is fighting to keep an anti-government extremist in custody after the FBI allegedly seized the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" in its history from a farm outside of Norfolk, VA.

Brad Kenneth Spafford, 36, was arrested on Dec. 17 for allegedly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. The single-count charge led to a search of Spafford's 20-acre farm, where federal investigators said they found a mass quantity of homemade explosives.

"When investigators searched his 20-acre property, in Isle of Wight County, they found in a detached garage more than 150 explosive devices — mostly pipe bombs, some of them labeled 'lethal,'" The New York Times reported. "They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading '#NoLivesMatter'....

Law enforcement officials in Nevada say that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the April standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy, the Bureau of Land Management and the armed militia who gathered at Bundy's ranch.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating whether staff members for the Senate Intelligence Committee removed classified documents without authorization for use in a committee report criticizing the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) interrogation techniques, McClatchy Newspapers reported on Thursday.

The FBI's new director says he supports the government's electronic surveillance program as a useful, "legal" tool, even though he opposed eavesdropping activities under ex-president George W. Bush.

Violent crime in the United States remained close to two-decade lows last year but the murder rate was higher than in virtually all other developed countries, official figures showed Monday.