The New York Times’s Charlie Savage reports that the FBI is preparing to release a new Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG), further relaxing the rules governing the Bureau’s investigation of Americans who are not suspected of any wrongdoing. This comes just three years after the last major revision of…
In 1908, the Justice Department created the Bureau of Investigation, a small division of detectives that was responsible for investigating violations of federal law. The division was filled with incompetent and corrupt agents until a young bureaucrat by the name of J. Edgar Hoover was brought in to clean house….
In July 2005 when there was a terrorist bombing in the London subway system the FBI, using a perfectly valid and legal subpoena, asked for and obtained documents from North Carolina State University about a possible conspirator. That apparently wasn’t good enough for the FBI. They wanted the agent to…
The FBI’s misuse of a key Patriot Act power was both intentional and criminal, and is symptomatic of the department’s over-reliance on ineffective data-mining methods, according to Mike German, a former FBI special agent who now works as the ACLU’s National Security Policy Counsel. The devil is in the details…
The FBI evaded limits on, and sometimes illegally issued, orders for phone, email and financial information on American citizens and underreported the use of these self-issued orders to Congress, according to an internal audit by the Justice Department released Friday. The DOJ Inspector General reported that the FBI used self-issued…
Wrongly convicted by fault of the FBI. US Representatives Stephen F. Lynch and William D. Delahunt greeted Peter J. Limone and his wife, Olly, before closing arguments yesterday. Limone served 33 years in prison before his conviction was overturned. Lawyers for four men wrongly convicted of a 1965 gangland slaying…
Daniel Mitrione traded the integrity of his FBI shield for a fast boat, fashionable clothes, luxury houses, expensive trips and 20 bars of silver. His story is that of the erosion of principle by greed and corruption. Mitrione’s partner in a nine-month FBI undercover operation was Hilmer B. Sandini, 60,…
The Department of Justice today released a report that gives details of s. pattern of petty corruption and, in some Cases, criminal Conduct at the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the report concludes that no prosecutions were possible because virtually all the alleged offenses took place…
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