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Schumer's One-Way Street

Len Levitt | Posted 05.21.2012

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Chuck Schumer put his Senatorial arm on FBI Director Robert Mueller last week -- pressuring him to call NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and brief him on the recently foiled Yemeni bomb plot.

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White House Spin May Have Had Unintended Consequences

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Underwear Bomb, Aqap, Al-Qaeda, Underwear Bomber, Video, Richard Clarke, Robert Mueller, Reuters, John Brennan, Al Qaeda, Politics News

* Obama adviser touted "inside control" of bomb plot * Leaks forced shutdown of operation By Mark Hosenball ...

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FBI Didn't Tell NYPD About Terror Plot

Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Al Qaeda Underwear Plot, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Underwear Bomb Plot, Cia, Ny News, Robert Mueller, Terror Plot, Fbi, New York News, Fbi Nypd, Al Qaeda, New York News

FBI chief Robert Mueller was grilled during a senate panel Wednesday by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the bureau's failure to communicate the deta...

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Cops, Mayors: NYPD Risks Access With Muslim Spying

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Ray Kelly, Rahm Emanuel, Nypd Fbi, Nypd Muslims, Ny News, Michael Bloomberg, Robert Mueller, Nypd Surveillance, New York News, Nypd Spying, Michael Ward, New York News

CHICAGO -- The tip was a surprise when it arrived on the desk of Ted Wasky. Had it not come, the former FBI agent fears five Muslim men in northwest O...

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FBI Warns Of New Terrorist Threat

AP | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: FBI Cyber Attacks, Frank Wolf, Terrorism, Robert Mueller, Fbi, Cyberterrorism, Cyber Attacks, Terrorist Attacks, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that terrorists may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders with an eye toward pur...

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2 Types Of Companies: 'Those That Have Been Hacked, And Those That Will Be'

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The director of the FBI told an annual gathering of cyber-security professionals on Thursday that the agency needs the private ...

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Our Nation's Religious Quandary

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: FBI Terror Watch List, Muslim American, Muslims, Islamists, Robert Mueller, William Gawthrop, Shariah Law, Anti-Muslim, Radical, Abrahamic, Politics News

The real big question, however, is given America's trepidation to mix church and state, how will federal agencies like the FBI determine the appropriate pedagogical approach to defining Islam?

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Bush Lied To FBI Director About Spying On Americans, Book Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 01.28.2012

Former President George W. Bush lied to FBI Director Robert Mueller in the Oval Office to protect White House programs that secretly eavesdropped on A...

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What The New Definition Of Rape Means For Women -- And Men

Stephanie Hallett | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: White House, Ms. Magazine, FBI Changes Definition of Rape, Rape, Robert Mueller, F.B.I, Eric Holder, Department of Justice, Definition of Rape, Fbi, Women News

I dialed into a call with representatives from the FBI, the White House and the Department of Justice to hear them announce the FBI will officially change its 83-year-old definition of rape.

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FBI Pledges To Change Way It Defines Rape

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Rape Definition, Video, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Fbi Rape, Rape, Robert Mueller, Uniform Crime Report, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller has accepted a recommendation to update the way the law enforcement agency defines rape, telling a Senate pa...

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FBI Director Challenges Top Republican's Theory On 'Fast And Furious'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mollie Reilly | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller denied that his agency attempted to cover up evidence related to Operation Fast and Furious, denouncing Rep....

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FBI Director Told Agents To Stop Making Fun Of NYPD Over Pipe Bomber

Posted 12.15.2011

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During a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed to struggling to prevent federal officials from critic...

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FBI Director Can't Rule Out Data Obtained by Carrier IQ

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 12.14.2011

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FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday denied the bureau had ever sought information from the mobile-software company Carrier IQ, but said he could ...

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House, Senate Negotiators Agree On $662 Billion Defense Bill

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Defense Bill, Terrorism, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, House, Senate, Video, Indefinite Detention Bill, Robert Mueller, Leon Panetta, Carl Levin, Indefinite Detention, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators late Monday agreed to a sweeping $662 billion defense bill that requires military custody for terroris...

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Behind Closed Doors: Congress Trying to Force Indefinite Detention Bill on Americans

Christopher E. Anders | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, John McCain, Lisa Monaco, James Clapper, National Defense Authorization Act, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Robert Mueller, David Petraeus, Ndaa, Buck Mckeon, Carl Levin, Politics News

Secret deals for indefinite military detention without charge or trial? Tell Congress we are better than that. It's not who we are as Americans, and it is not the country or the world we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren.

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FBI Takes Major Step Toward Redefining Rape

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- An FBI advisory board overwhelmingly voted to update the narrow, archaic way the agency defines rape on Tuesday, a move that women's rig...

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Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them inde...

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FBI Looks To Update Its Definition Of Rape

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The FBI took a step away from the archaic way it defines rape on Tuesday, when an agency panel voted to update the federal definition fo...

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September 11 'Specific, Credible Threat' Still Unresolved

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.13.2011

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Last week's specific, "credible but unconfirmed" threat of a terrorist attack reported in the days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11 remains "an on...

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Homeland Security Chair Seeks FBI Probe Of News Corp. Hacking

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The powerful Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is demanding that the FBI investigate Rupert Murdoch's News Co...

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Trafficked: The Village Voice Needs to Fact-Check

Turnstyle | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Child Sex Trafficking, Seann William Scott, Dude Where's My Car, Police, Robert Mueller, Oakland, Dna Foundation, Crimes Against Children Unit, Demi Moore, Sex Trafficking, Village Voice, Real Men, Csec, Fact Checking, Ashton Kutcher, Impact News

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Bin Laden Documents Help U.S. Piece Together Intelligence Puzzle

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 08.08.2011

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is tracking possible new terror targets and stepping up surveillance of operatives previously considered minor al-Qaida fi...

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Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama

Posted 07.26.2011

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JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of pos...

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New York City's Topsy-Turvy Terrorism War

Len Levitt | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hate Crimes, Ahmed Ferhani, Michael Bloomberg, James Shea, Robert Mueller, Mohamed Mamdouh, Fbi, State Terrorism, Manny Lopez, Janice Fedarcyk, Security Service Unit, NY Terror Plot, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Cyrus Vance Jr., New York News

Mayor Bloomberg declaring last week that the FBI was not interested in pursuing a terrorism case developed by the NYPD suggests that the relationship between the two agencies has sunk to an all-time low.

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Is The FBI Up To The Job 10 Years After 9/11?

TIME | BARTON GELLMAN | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Law Enforcement, Central Intelligence Agency, Fbi Director Bob Mueller, David Petraeus, 9/11, Fbi, Al Qaeda, September 11, Bob Mueller, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Cia, Robert Mueller, Leon Panetta, Intelligence Gathering, September 11th, Politics News

FBI Director Bob Mueller glanced at the black chronograph he wears Marine-style, the face inside his wrist. It was 7:38 a.m. Not quite time. He review...

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