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As Threats Increase, Sometimes It Is The Informants That Go Wild

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neo-Nazi, Cair, Terrorism, Hal Turner, First Amendment, Informants, Right-Wing Extremism, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Politics News

While the conduct of a couple of loose-cannon informants can be a headache for the FBI and the butt of jokes, behind the scenes authorities are increasingly concerned about evolving threats from across the ideological spectrum.

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Najibullah Zazi Case: Arthur Folsom No Longer Representing Terror Defendant

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Arthur Folsom, Najibullah Zazi, Denver New York City Terror Cell, Cia, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Denver Terror Defendant, Denver News

DENVER — A Denver lawyer thrust into the international spotlight while representing a Colorado man accused of plotting a terrorist attack is no ...

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Angelo Faliva: Missing Chef's Disappearance Being Probed By FBI

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Angelo Faliva, Fbi, Italian Chef, Fbi Missing Chef, Missing Chef, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The FBI joined in an international investigation Monday into the disappearance of an Italian chef who may have gone overboard duri...

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Craig Monteilh: Self-Proclaimed FBI Mosque Spy Gets Special Treatment

AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Craig Monteilh, Mosque Spy, Mosque, FBI Spy, Spy, Fbi, Los Angeles News

WEST COVINA, Calif. — A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a fe...

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Nothing but a Northern Lynching: The Death of Fred Hampton Revisited

Susan Rutberg | Posted 12.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cointelpro, Fred Hampton, Fbi, Black Panther Party, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, Chicago News

Forty years ago, on December 4, 1969, 21-year-old Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was murdered as he slept in his home on Chicago's West Side.

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Lieberman's Right on Fort Hood

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, John McCain, Public Option, Terrorism, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Violence, Abortion Doctors, Intimidation, Heath Care, Sarah Palin, Major Nidal Hasan, Religion, Qur'An, Nypd, Joe Lieberman, U.S. Army, Narco-Terrorism, Fbi, Islam, Iraq, Politics News

When campaigning for John McCain Lieberman actually declared Sarah Palin fit to be president. Yet, when it comes to the Fort Hood slayings, Joe Lieberman is spot on.

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FBI Reports Small Increase In Hate Crimes, But On Very Limited Data

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Fbi, Hate Crime, Gays, Prejudice, Civil Rights, Politics News

It is not known if the uptick is the result of an actual increase in cases, or instead the result of a rise in the number of agencies participating in the program.

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Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cia, Jack Ruby, President Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Jfk, John F. Kennedy Assassination, Fbi, Cuba, Soviet Union, Politics News

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

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The Many Faces of Islamist Terror

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Dr Manmohan Singh, India, Doon School, Tahawwur Rana, David Coleman Headley, Woodstock School, National Defence College, Fbi, Lashkar E-Toiba, World News

The arrest of David Coleman Headley by the FBI in mid-October has focused attention in India on the transnational nature of the Islamist terrorist networks.

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Cop Tasers 10-Year-Old Girl With Mom's Permission

AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

OZARK, Ark. — A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended –...

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Congress Partially to Blame for Fort Hood Massacre

John Rosenthal | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joint Terrorism Task Force, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Fbi, Terrorism, Politics News

Had the FBI been allowed to know that Hasan had bought tactical weapons, there's a good chance he could have been caught before killing 13 and wounding 29.

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'Geezer Bandit' Sought By FBI For San Diego Bank Robberies

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Geezer Bandit San Diego, FBI Geezer Bandit, Geezer Bandit, Bank of America Robberies, Darrell Foxworth, Bank of America, Fbi, San Diego California, Bank of America La Jolla, Crime, Criminals, Home News

SAN DIEGO — FBI officials say an elderly, thin, gray-haired man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" is responsible for holding up five San Diego-area ...

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Studs Terkel's FBI File Unearthed, With A Few Surprises

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Studs Terkel, Studs Terkel FBI, Studs Terkel FBI File, FBI Surveillance, Fbi, J. Edgar Hoover, Andre Schiffrin, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants abou...

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Accused Military Fake Steven Burton Charged: Man Allegedly Wore Unearned medals To Class Reunion

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A Palm Springs man who was never in the military has been charged with wearing the Navy's highest honor. Federal prosecu...

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, William Kunstler, Aclu, Civil Rights Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil Rights, Naacp, Sundance Film Festival, Bill Kunstler, Fbi, Entertainment News

At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.

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U.S. Mortgage Fraud Remains at Epidemic Levels

Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Sars, Banning, Sec, Accountability, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Fbi, Mortgage Fraud, Business News

Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.

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Death of a Detroit Imam Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inner City, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Islamaphobia, Poverty, Fbi, Muslims, Muslim, Politics News

The recent and unfortunate death of Imam Luqman Abdullah at the hands of FBI agents reveals much about the greater issues of race, religion, poverty, authority and justice in our society.

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Conservatives for Privacy, Where is the Left?

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bradley Jansen, Liberty and Privacy Network, First Amendment, Paul Weyrich, Ronald Reagan, Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, Guidelines, Fbi, Obama, Free Congress, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Politics News

The best way to keep us safe and free is eternal vigilance--no matter which party is in office. So, let's hold our friends on the left accountable when it's needed.

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Cheney FBI Interview: 72 Instances Of Can't Recall

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Dick Cheney Fbi Interview, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president....

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Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Tadamasa, Lara Logan, Ucla Ethics, UCLA Medical Center, Crime, Organ Donation, Ucla, Organ Transplants, Ucla Medical Center Ethics, Fbi, Goto, Tokyo, 60 Minutes, Yakuza Liver Transplants, John Gotti, Mob, Yakuza, Japan, Health Care, Tadamasa Goto, World News

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

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FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

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The 'Bright Line Rule': New Papers Detail FBI, CIA Wrangle Over Torture

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee FOIA, Harsh Interrogations, FBI CIA, Fbi, Ramzi Binalshibh, Torture Foia, CIA FOIA, Detainees, Cia Harsh Interrogation Techniques, Cia, Waterboarding, FOIA Requests, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...

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Jonathan Safran Foer - America's #1 Terrorist?

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Rights, Dennis Kucinich, Eating Animals, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Factory Farms, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Fbi, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News

Foer's undercover reporting -- while clearly an important public service -- are actually illegal, and what's more, they constitute acts of domestic terrorism under the little-known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

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Oleg Deripaska, Barred Russian Tycoon, Allowed Into U.S. By FBI, Meets Top Execs

wsj.com | EVAN PEREZ and GREGORY L. WHITE | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Oleg Deripaska Aluminum, Oleg Deripaska, Russia Tycoon, Fbi, Oleg Deripaska Russia, Oleg Deripaska U.S., Oleg Deripaska Visa, Oleg Deripaska Fbi, Deripaska Fbi, World News

One of Russia's most powerful tycoons -- barred entry to the U.S. for years due to U.S. government concerns about possible ties to organized crime -- ...

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Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Leader Of Radical Islam Group, Killed In Raid

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home

Read More: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Gary Leone, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Radical Islam Leader Killed, Christopher Thomas, Radical Islam Leader, Detroit, Dearborn, Imad Hamad, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Michigan, Fbi, Sunni Islam, FBI Raid, Home News

DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a ...

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