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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency. His cousin, Michael Gibson, said Levert never had any outburst such as the type described by Kevin McDonough, warden at the Cuyahoga County jail... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

MSNBC -- A couple accused of stealing millions of dollars from an armored car company did it to escape financial hardships, the woman told the FBI in court documents disclosed Monday. Roger Dillon, 23, and his girlfriend, Nicole Boyd, 25, both of Youngstown, ar.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 16, 2007 @ 7:58pm neoform

Associated Press -- A teenager was arrested after a leader of the Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high school student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill his grandparents, authorities said. Andrew Culver, 18, told police the e-mail.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 12:19pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man in Sweden who was angry with his daughter's husband has been charged with libel for telling the FBI that the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported on Friday. The man, who admitted sending the email, said he did not think the US.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:06am neoform

Washington Post -- An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Just.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

Washington Post -- The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s, according to an FBI report to be released Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

FOX News -- Canadian authorities have arrested a California man who was on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for alleged sex crimes against children, the FBI said. Richard Steve Goldberg, 61, of Long Beach, was arrested Saturday in Montreal at an address provided b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:44pm neoform

FOX News -- The FBI offered a $5,000 reward Tuesday for help finding whoever mailed dozens of threatening letters — including some containing a potentially harmful insecticide — complaining about TV coverage of college cheerleaders and professional female athlete.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 4:18am neoform

MSNBC -- When a third suspect was caught Friday in a bank robbery investigation that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, he had a request for officers: "Just shoot me." Francisco Herrera-Genao, 22, was tired and cold, half-naked, and caked with mud and t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 8:31pm neoform

CNN -- The lone woman on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list was captured and charged with one count of second-degree murder, authorities said. Shauntay L. Henderson, 24, was arrested Saturday when she answered the door at an apartment, police said. Authorities had.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 12:18pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Justice Department's inspector general told a committee of angry House members yesterday that the FBI may have violated the law or government policies as many as 3,000 times since 2003 as agents secretly collected the telephone, bank and credit card r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

New Standard News -- Among a new batch of documents rights groups have forced the gov't to release, a Bureau communication refers to a presidential Executive Order endorsing some forms of torture witnessed at Iraq prison. Repeated references in an internal FBI email sugges.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 9:03am neoform

www.pfaw.org -- Americans learned today that the F.B.I. has been abusing its authority under the Patriot Act to obtain private information about American citizens without judicial approval. So says a report issued today by the Department of Justice’s inspector general... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 11:13pm neoform

Salon -- Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain a whole array of privacy-i.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 8:43am neoform

Wired -- It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 4:02pm neoform

CNET -- The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 18, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

Ars Technica -- A new article from the New York Times reveals that it's not just the FBI—the agency traditionally tasked with domestic law enforcement—that has been accessing citizens' banking records in the name of the war on terror: both the military and the CIA.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 9:52pm neoform

Boston Herald -- FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including one detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting the Quran and another who pulled out his hair after hours in a swelte.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 8:05am neoform

New York Times -- Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran from Chicago, was a whistle-blower who tipped off the F.B.I. to suspicious activity at the company where he worked, including possible weapons trafficking. He was arrested and held for 97 days — shackled and blin.. Read More