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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


Brian Levin, J.D.

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.

Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


Edward Jay Epstein

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

The Many Faces of Islamist Terror

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 11.20.2009 | World


Pinaki Bhattacharya

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.

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 –...

Congress Partially to Blame for Fort Hood Massacre

John Rosenthal | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


John Rosenthal

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.

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

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home


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

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

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago


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

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...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment


Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

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.

U.S. Mortgage Fraud Remains at Epidemic Levels

Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business


Pat Choate

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.

Death of a Detroit Imam Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


Hamdan Azhar

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.

Conservatives for Privacy, Where is the Left?

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics


J. Bradley Jansen

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.

Cheney FBI Interview: 72 Instances Of Can't Recall

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics


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

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

Posted 11.02.2009 | World


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...

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...

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

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


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

Jonathan Safran Foer - America's #1 Terrorist?

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Mikko Alanne

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.

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


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 -- ...

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

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home


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 ...

Is Scientology A Cult? Is Paul Haggis The Next Martin Luther?

Politics Daily | David Gibson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Los Angeles


It's been a tough stretch for Scientology. The church founded by the late science fiction writer (and great prophet/odd duck/complete kook -- take you...

Child Prostitution Ring: 24 Arrested In Denver During Nationwide Raids

Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver


During a three-day FBI-led crack down on child prostitution nationwide, 27 people in the Denver area were arrested late last week and over the weekend...

Stephanie Villafuerte, Former Ritter Aid Tapped By Obama Administration, Implicated In 2006 Immigrant Scandal: Denver Post

The Denver Post | Karen E. Crummy | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver


President Barack Obama's nominee as Colorado's next U.S. attorney told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Att...

La Familia Cartel Targeted, Police Arrest More Than 300 Across U.S.

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT and SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.23.2009 | World


OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that d...

Semion Mogilevich: Powerful Mobster Was Added To FBI's Most Wanted List

CNN | Jeanne Meserve | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of. Mogilevich's alleged brutality, financial savvy ...

Mohammed Zazi Trial Set For December

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver


DENVER — A Colorado man whose son is accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City is scheduled to go to trial in December on a charge of...