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FBI stories: 258 news summaries

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 FBI Opens Probe 
 Into 'Stolen' 
 Jackie O Letter 

Kennedy plumber's son sold it to dealer for $6K

Sep 13, 09 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into a condolence letter written by Jackie Kennedy on the day after Robert Kennedy died, the Dallas Morning News reports. Sent to Ethel Kennedy, the two-page letter soon disappeared—and turned up 10 years ago in the home of the Kennedy family plumber.... More »

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investigation • FBI • Ethel Kennedy • letter • Jackie Onassis • Robert Kennedy

 FBI Sifts Trash for Clues 
 to Missing Yalie 

Investigators hope for hints in lab garbage

Sep 13, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI began investigating today a Hartford trash facility for any clues to the disappearance of Yale student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. A spokesman says the FBI is looking for evidence in garbage from a New Haven laboratory where Le was last seen. Investigators have also started reviewing... More »

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investigation • FBI • New Haven • Connecticut • disappearance • Yale • Hartford • Annie Le

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Coast Guard Exercise Triggers 9/11 Potomac Scare

Ill-timed drill coincides with Pentagon ceremony

Sep 11, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a case of not-so-great timing, the Coast Guard conducted a training exercise on how to handle a rogue boat this morning in the Potomac River—with 9/11 commemorations taking place at the Pentagon and the president's motorcade crossing a nearby bridge, the Washington Post reports. The exercise caused a... More »

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Pentagon • FBI • September 11 • Coast Guard • CNN • 9/11 attacks • Reagan National Airport • Potomac River • training exercise

(Newser) - Barack Obama has ordered the creation of an elite squad that will take over terror interrogations from the CIA, senior officials tell the Washington Post. Dubbed the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, the unit will be housed with the FBI, but overseen by the White House through... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • FBI • interrogation • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • National Security Council

FBI Chief Calls Lockerbie Release 'Mockery' of Law

'Your action rewards a terrorist,' Mueller writes to Scottish official

Aug 22, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - FBI chief Robert Mueller condemned the release of the Lockerbie bomber as “a mockery of the rule of law,” CNN reports. “Your action rewards a terrorist,” Mueller wrote to the Scottish official who released Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. “Where, I ask, is the... More »

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FBI • Scotland • Libya • Robert Mueller • terrorist • Lockerbie • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

(Newser) - When military contractor Raymond Azar was arrested in Afghanistan, he was hooded, shackled, stripped, photographed naked, then flown to Alexandria, Va., in the first known rendition of the Obama administration. But Azar isn’t accused of terrorism. The Lebanese citizen is accused of bribery, a charge he pleaded guilty to... More »

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Afghanistan • rendition • FBI • harsh interrogation • defense contractors

FBI, CIA Recruits Duke It Out With Actors on DC's Streets

Bystanders beware: crime scenes staged on streets

Aug 17, 09 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Criminal incidents around Washington may not always be what they seem: The FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and other authorities stage crimes all over town, aiming to put trainees in the heat of the action, the Washington Post reports. Professional actors, students, retired cops, and others play bad-guy targets for new... More »

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CIA • FBI • police • Secret Service • training • actor • Washington, DC • acting

Blogger's Case Tests Limits of Free Speech

Far-right critic remains in jail after calling for judges' deaths

Aug 15, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - When three federal judges rejected an NRA lawsuit, Internet radio host Hal Turner got angry. “These judges deserve to be killed,” he wrote on his blog. “Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.” Then he posted photos of the judges, maps to their courthouse, and... More »

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FBI • free speech • NRA • First Amendment • National Rifle Association • right-wing extremism

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White House Sought to Weaken Whistleblower Law


Aug 7, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration appears to have attempted to water down the whistleblower protection law the president himself championed on the campaign trail. In an e-mail obtained by the Washington Times, a lawyer in the White House counsel's office sent a new draft of the bill to the Senate. That... More »

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national security • FBI • Senate • House of Representatives • federal employees • Election 2008 • whistleblower • US Senate • Obama administration • President Obama • Homeland Security Committee • White House counsel

Suspect in NJ Probe Sold Black-Market Kidneys

Corruption bust yields strange side business

Jul 25, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI says it's made the first organ trafficking arrest in US history, a strange byproduct of the sweeping corruption probe that nabbed dozens of New Jersey officials and rabbis, the Star-Ledger reports. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum is accused of dealing in kidneys: He'd buy them from donors in Israel... More »

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Israel • FBI • New Jersey • corruption • black market • kidney • organ trafficking • money laundering • arrest

NJ Mayors, NY Rabbis Busted in Corruption Probe

Syrian Jews accused
of money-laundering

Jul 23, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a huge corruption bust, FBI agents arrested 30 people today, including the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, a New Jersey assemblyman, and several Brooklyn and New Jersey rabbis, the Star-Ledger reports. The arrests stem from a 2-year money-laundering probe centered on New... More »

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FBI • New Jersey • corruption • Brooklyn • Internal Revenue Service • Jewish • rabbi • Peter Cammarano • Daniel Van Pelt • Dennis Elwell

Inside the CIA Torturers' Heads

Post: Higher-ups pushed interrogators for harsher methods than they wanted

Jul 19, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI was already getting information out of a suspected terrorist in a series of relatively friendly interrogations in 2002 when the CIA stepped in, a former US official tells the Washington Post. Agency contract psychologists escalated the techniques to sleep deprivation, extreme cold, and waterboarding, which the FBI interrogators... More »

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CIA • torture • FBI • sleep deprivation • waterboarding • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • psychologist • enhanced interrogation techniques

Feds Nab Man Who Sold Gun to McNair Killer

Convicted murderer faces charges after parking lot transaction

Jul 17, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - ATF agents have arrested the man who sold the gun that killed Steve McNair, the AP reports. The suspect, Adrian J. Gilliam Jr., has prior convictions for murder and attempted robbery. He admits he sold a fully loaded 9mm pistol to McNair’s girlfriend in a mall parking lot 2... More »

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FBI • Tennessee Titans • murder • ATF • Steve McNair • Nashville • gun laws • Sahel Kazemi • Adrian Gilliam

8th Bust Made in Murder of Fla. Pair; Cartel Link Surfaces

Eighth arrest in slaying of Byrd and Melanie Billings

Jul 16, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - An eighth arrest was made yesterday in the killing of a Florida couple with 16 kids, the Pensacola News Journal reports. Pamela Long Wiggins, 47, has been charged as an accessory to the crime. She has been linked to two other suspects—she rents an apartment to the man described... More »

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Florida • FBI • murder • parents • arrest • drug cartel • home invasion • Byrd Billings • Melanie Billings • Pamela Wiggins

(Newser) - A dastardly online organization has taken prank-calling to nefarious highs and is being investigated by the FBI, Fox News reports. PrankNET and its leader, “Dex,” have used untraceable Internet phone calls to:
  • impersonate a corporate honcho and make KFC employees spray down their entire restaurant with fire
... More »

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social networking • Internet • FBI • federal investigation • restaurant • hotel • property damage • prank call • PrankNET

How Twin Cities' 'Best' Somali Youth Ended Up Jihadis

Islamist sympathies take promising men from Minneapolis to Mogadishu

Jul 12, 09 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - For a group of young Americans, the path to an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group in Somalia led through the Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, where one planned to become a doctor; another, an entrepreneur. But now the students are at the center of what may be the most pressing domestic... More »

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Somalia • terrorism • Minneapolis • FBI • jihad • Ethiopia • Islamist

(Newser) - The Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program wasn't such a great anti-terror tool after all, says a new federal report. The wiretaps—on the international communication of Americans—"generally played a limited role" in counterterrorism efforts, despite the assertions of President Bush, Dick Cheney, and other top officials that they... More »

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Bush administration • national security • FBI • surveillance • wiretap • warrantless wiretapping • John Yoo

(Newser) - The Bush administration stonewalled human rights organizations and branches of the US government that sought an investigation into the alleged mass murder of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan in 2001, the New York Times reports. As many as 1,500 people may have died in the incident, under the command... More »

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Afghanistan • Bush administration • Taliban • investigation • FBI • human rights • war crimes • Department of Defense • Northern Alliance • Obama administration • mass graves • Abdul Rashid Dostum

 FBI Denies Palin Probe 

Governor's abrupt resignation remains a mystery

Jul 6, 09 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI is not investigating Sarah Palin, a spokesman for the bureau said yesterday. Rumors of a federal probe have dogged Palin since she abruptly announced last week that she was resigning her post as Alaska's governor. Bloggers have reported rumors that feds were digging into Palin's award of a... More »

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FBI • Republican • GOP • governor • Sarah Palin • Election 2012

Saddam's FBI Interviews Released

Says WMD fiction was aimed at Iran; he wanted pact with US

Jul 2, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Transcripts of Saddam Hussein's two dozen interviews with the FBI before his execution were released yesterday, after details were published last week by the New York Daily News, which obtained them through the Freedom of Information Act. Some details are still redacted, but the FBI says no "enhanced" techniques... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war

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