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  • July 2008

    • Feds Confiscate Hathaway's Diaries

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Jul 24, 08 12:54 PM CDT

      Feds Confiscate Hathaway's Diaries

      Anne Hathaway could be drawn into the scandal surrounding her ex-boyfriend. The FBI has seized the actress’ diaries, looking for evidence in the fraud investigation against Raffaello Follieri. They also confiscated personal photos of the pair, along with other documents, a Tiffany clock, watches, and an antique Bible. Hathaway hasn’t been accused of anything, and has cut off all contact with Follieri. More »

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      crime  • FBI  • fraud  • Anne Hathaway  • Raffaello Follieri

    • 'Ironclad' Authority of DNA Evidence Questioned

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 20, 08 11:47 AM CDT

      'Ironclad' Authority of DNA Evidence Questioned

      With odds of a definite match to suspects often cited as high as 1 in 100 billion, the power of DNA evidence in a criminal case is rarely disputed. But new studies are leading some to question whether DNA evidence should be an ironclad determination of guilt, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      crime  • FBI  • DNA evidence

    • Ex-Con Suspected in 8 Murders Captured in Ill.

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 2, 08 9:04 AM CDT

      Ex-Con Suspected in 8 Murders Captured in Ill.

      An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings ended with the man quietly arrested last night outside a bar known as a police hangout. Police knew from a number of witness reports that Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, was in the area, said the police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Festus, Mo. "He was desperate and he gave up without a fight. He's had a rough two days."   More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Illinois  • St. Louis  • serial killers

  • June 2008

    • FBI Busts Child Prostitution Networks

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 25, 08 9:29 PM CDT

      FBI Busts Child Prostitution Networks

      Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. In all, authorities arrested 345 people, including 290 adult prostitutes, during the operation that ended this week in 16 major cities. "The sex trafficking of children remains one of the most violent and unforgivable crimes in this country," said FBI chief Robert Mueller. More »

    • Salty Senate Candidates Heating Up Alaska

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 19, 08 4:18 PM CDT

      Salty Senate Candidates Heating Up Alaska

      A sweltering Senate contest looks likely to warm up Alaska come November, Katherine Rizzo writes in the Wall Street Journal , as “cantankerous bully” and 40-year incumbent Ted Stevens faces the mayor of Anchorage in what’s already a mudfest. Democrat Mark Begich has reminded voters of Stevens’ convict friends and of the federal search of the Republican's home—and Ted has pushed right back. More »

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      FBI  • negative campaigning  • Alaska  • IRS  • Ted Stevens  • eviction  • Mark Begich

    • FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 10, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      The FBI’s system of background checks has forced many legal immigrants to wait years before getting into the US or gaining citizenship, the Justice Department finds. The program, deluged by more names and wider checks after 9/11, has struggled with old technology, poor training, and swamped supervisors, the Los Angeles Times reports. And criminals could be cruising through the system. More »

  • May 2008

    • Rogue al-Qaeda Backers Call for Nuke Attack in Online Video

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 28, 08 8:52 AM CDT

      Rogue al-Qaeda Backers Call for Nuke Attack in Online Video

      Al-Qaeda supporters will use an Internet video to call for the use of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons in a new attack on civilians in the West, reports ABC News. FBI officials have alerted US law enforcement of the tape, said a spokesman, but emphasized that there is no evidence of a specific plot. More »

    • FBI Stalled in Addressing Prisoner Abuse

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 20, 08 1:56 PM CDT

      FBI Stalled in Addressing Prisoner Abuse

      FBI agents dragged their feet in reporting torture inflicted on prisoners by Defense contractors and CIA employees, an an internal FBI report shows, but agents themselves generally did not participate in torture. FBI brass, however, was scolded for not providing more guidance or “pressing harder” to curb other agencies’ actions, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      FBI  • Department of Justice  • CIA  • torture  • Department of Defense  • Robert Mueller

    • Government's Spy Powers Up, But Terror Arrests Down

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 12, 08 11:15 AM CDT

      Government's Spy Powers Up, But Terror Arrests Down

      Big Brother is watching … but hasn’t found much, the Los Angeles Times reports. Despite vastly increased domestic spying activities, terrorism prosecutions have plummeted 50% since 2002; last year alone saw a 19% drop, despite a 9% increase in eavesdropping warrants. The Bush administration, meanwhile, is pushing for even greater surveillance powers, and says the decrease in prosecutions doesn’t mean much. More »

    • Facing Suit, FBI Drops Secret Order

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 8, 08 8:56 AM CDT

      Facing Suit, FBI Drops Secret Order

      Facing a lawsuit, the FBI has withdrawn a secret order demanding that an Internet library turn over a user's records—only the third time the bureau has backed down from such a demand, known as a "national security letter." The San Francisco-based Internet Archive, which stores old versions of websites, challenged the order on the grounds that the Patriot Act provision that protects libraries from similar requests should apply online as well. More »

    • FBI Seizes Docs From Federal Watchdog

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 6, 08 1:33 PM CDT

      FBI Seizes Docs From Federal Watchdog

      FBI agents raided the Office of Special Counsel today, serving subpoenas and seizing documents from agency chief Scott Bloch. Bloch, whose office protects federal whistleblowers, is being investigated for obstructing justice, the Wall Street Journal reports, with Bloch's use of an outside service to erase office computers being viewed as a possible cover-up in a 2006 investigation. More »

    • Bomb Damages San Diego Courthouse

      newser  |  ABC News  |  May 5, 08 4:39 AM CDT

      Bomb Damages San Diego Courthouse

      In what could be the work of a serial bomber, a multi-pipe bomb exploded yesterday at a San Diego courthouse, shattering its door and blasting shrapnel across the street, ABC News reports. No one was hurt in the predawn explosion. The FBI is investigating the incident, which follows a similar bombing in the city last month that destroyed the door of a Federal Express building. No one has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack, and no threats were received. More »

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      FBI  • San Diego  • bomb  • explosion  • courthouse

    • Is Monroe Sex Tape a Hoax?

      newser  |  NBC  |  May 2, 08 3:05 AM CDT

      Is Monroe Sex Tape a Hoax?

      FBI officials say their records show no evidence that the agency ever had a Marilyn Monroe sex tape, casting doubt on a memorabilia dealer’s claim that he just sold one, NBC News reports. The dealer says it belonged to the FBI in the 1960s, but he has produced no clear evidence of it and won't name the buyer. Several FBI analysts pored over agency records—notoriously meticulous under Hoover—and found nothing to confirm it. More »

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      FBI  • pornography  • memorabilia  • sex tape  • Marilyn Monroe  • classified information

  • April 2008

    • DNA Used to Nab Criminal Kin

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 21, 08 12:51 PM CDT

      DNA Used to Nab Criminal Kin

      Law-enforcement agencies are using DNA of family members—often without their consent—to identify and convict criminals, the Washington Post reports. Privacy advocates object that it turns family members into unwitting informants, and subjects innocent relatives to “lifelong genetic surveillance” because someone in their family committed a crime. But investigators say it could increase DNA-solved cases by as much as 40%. More »

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      murder  • crime  • FBI  • DNA  • genetics  • Massachusetts  • Colorado  • DNA evidence  • law enforcement  • criminal justice  • DNA database

    • US Plans to Widen DNA Database

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 16, 08 9:27 PM CDT

      US Plans to Widen DNA Database

      The US plans to significantly widen its law-enforcement database by taking DNA samples from illegal immigrants picked up by federal authorities and from all people arrested for federal offenses, the Washington Post reports. The feds currently collect genetic information only from those convicted of federal crimes. The expanded policy follows the lead of 13 states. More »

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      crime  • FBI  • DNA  • arrest  • illegal immigration  • ACLU  • DNA evidence  • felony  • civil liberties  • US government  • DNA database

    • Secret Monroe Porn Fetches $1.5M

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Apr 14, 08 9:15 AM CDT

      Secret Monroe Porn Fetches $1.5M

      A copy of an FBI-classified Marilyn Monroe sex tape quietly surfaced last month and sold for $1.5 million, reports the New York Post . The 15 minutes of silent footage, which the anonymous New York buyer plans to keep private so as not to make a “Paris Hilton out of her,” features Monroe performing oral sex on a mystery man in the 1950s.  More »

    • After 20 Years, Feds Crack Hate Mail Case

      newser  |  Cleveland Plain Dealer  |  Apr 11, 08 4:14 PM CDT

      After 20 Years, Feds Crack Hate Mail Case

      An Ohio man who authorities believe sent threatening communications to black and mixed-race recipients over the course of 20 years was indicted this week, the Plain Dealer reports. David Tuason, 46, threatened to blow up the US Supreme Court and kill Clarence Thomas in 2003 but eluded capture from the late 1980s until a few months ago, when he switched from postal mail to email. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • FBI  • race  • racism  • hate crime  • federal investigation  • Clarence Thomas  • hate mail

    • Congress Looks Into FBI's Telecom Spying

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 8, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      Congress Looks Into FBI's Telecom Spying

      Congressional Democrats are questioning the cozy relationship between the FBI and telecom companies, the Washington Post reports. Thanks to a 1994 law, all telecom firms have “Quantico circuits”—little-known electronic lines straight to the FBI technology office in Virginia. Telecom technicians can instantly send data over those lines, telling investigators who’s calling whom and from where. More »

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      FBI  • privacy  • Verizon  • telecom industry  • FISA  • domestic wiretapping  • John Dingell

    • Feds Renew Blackwater Deal

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 4, 08 7:55 PM CDT

      Feds Renew Blackwater Deal

      Washington renewed Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract for another year today pending two probes into the contractor's conduct in Iraq, the AP reports. The FBI is still investigating a Baghdad shooting last year in which Blackwater guards gunned down 17 civilians and sparked outrage among Iraqis; US lawmakers are also probing claims that Blackwater smuggled arms into the country. Blackwater has denied guilt in both cases. More »

    • Parachute Didn't Belong to DB Cooper, FBI Says

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 1, 08 9:37 PM CDT

      Parachute Didn't Belong to DB Cooper, FBI Says

      The FBI says a parachute found along a dirt road in Washington state didn’t belong to legendary hijacker DB Cooper, AP reports. After talking to parachute experts and examining the site, agents concluded that the chute wasn’t used in the nation’s only unsolved hijacking. Cooper made away with $200,000 when he jumped off the plane in 1971, but investigators doubt he survived the leap. More »

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      FBI  • Seattle  • Washington  • cold cases  • plane hijacking

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