Time to Dethrone The FBI

It’s a historically untrustworthy secret organization that needs to live under rule of law. President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey provides a welcome chance to dethrone the FBI from its pinnacle in American politics and life. Last September, Comey denounced Twitter “demagoguery” for the widespread belief that the…
FBI Technician Passed Secrets To China In Return For Cash And Prostitutes
The FBI Is Not Worthy Of The Public’s Trust
FBI Teams Up With Local Law Enforcement Agents To Invade Citizens’ Privacy

Our cellular phones, the U.S. Supreme Court recently opined, contain “a digital record of nearly every aspect of [our] lives – from the mundane to the intimate.” Indeed, many of us use our cellphones to privately convey our love, our insecurities, our fears, our locations, and our most sensitive relationships….
James Brien Comey, Jr. Is A Traitor

James Brien Comey, Jr. – the (former) Director of the (FBI) Federal Bureau of Investigation is a traitor. James Comey has continually refused to comment on the ongoing investigation into the use of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. This dates back to October 2015 when Comey refused to comment at…
Robert LaVoy Finicum Was Murdered Execution Style By The Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI)

Robert LaVoy Finicum is a patriot. The daughter of Robert LaVoy Finicum, the Oregon militiaman shot dead by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during a traffic stop on Highway 395 on January 26, 2016, claims that her father was “murdered” execution-style with his hands in the air, an account…
Why Are FBI Agents Trammeling The Rights Of Antiwar Activists?

Five years ago this week, FBI agents raided the homes of six political activists of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as the office of the nonprofit Anti-War Committee. Those activists are still waiting to learn when, or even if, they will be…
The FBI Used To Have Integrity. Now Agents Lie, Cheat, And Break The Law

Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery, and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents and technicians testify falsely…
FBI Behind Mysterious Surveillance Aircraft Over U.S. Cities

The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a…
FBI Files Tell How Drug Addicted Agent Was Able To Get The Drugs From The FBI Evidence Room
The FBI Is America’s Secret Police
When Is Congress Going To Rein In FBI Surveillance?

We’ve heard a lot about NSA spying thanks to Edward Snowden, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation is no stranger to unaccountable snooping. According to James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power.” So it’s…
FBI Seizes A Private Owned Collection Of Antiquities First, Then Asks Questions Later

An extraordinary and disturbing story just out from the Indianapolis Star/USA Today: WALDRON, Ind. — FBI agents Wednesday seized “thousands” of cultural artifacts, including American Indian items, from the private collection of a 91-year-old man who had acquired them over the past eight decades. An FBI command vehicle and several…
Fast And Furious: FBI Now Linked To Murder Of U.S. Border Agent

In the latest explosive twist to the Obama administration’s deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal, one of the key whistleblowers has now identified the FBI as a crucial player in the infamous 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives…
A Corrupt FBI Let Mobster Whitey Bulger Keep Killing

You’d hardly know it from the wall-to-wall coverage of the George Zimmerman case, but there’s another trial going on that’s at least as worthy of national attention. That’s the 32-count federal racketeering indictment against James “Whitey” Bulger, a Boston mob kingpin linked to at least 19 murders, captured in 2011…
The FBI’s Proposal For A Wiretap Ready Internet Should Be Trashed

The FBI has some strange ideas about how to “update” federal surveillance laws: They’re calling for legislation to penalize online services that provide users with too much security. I’m not kidding. The proposal was revealed in The Washington Post last week — and a couple days ago, a front-page story…
More About FBI Spying

The FBI has a long history of abusing its national security surveillance powers. The potential for abuse is once again great, particularly given that the lines between criminal investigations and foreign intelligence operations have been blurred or erased since 9/11. As a result, intrusive surveillance tools originally developed to target…
FBI Free To Ambush Our Bill Of Rights
National Security And A Less-Restrained FBI

Less than three years after the last major revision of its domestic surveillance guidelines, the FBI is preparing to loosen its restrictions on monitoring Americans. If this is not halted, we might find our privacy eroded beyond repair. Agents are already free to search the public Internet and the federal…
FBI’s New Guidelines Further Loosen Constraints on Monitoring

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…
Judge: FBI Lied, But Documents About Muslims Stay Secret

SANTA ANA – Documents connected to surveillance of several Islamic organizations and Muslim leaders will not be released, but a federal judge strongly rebuked the government for lying about the existence of the documents to the federal court. Government officials fighting the release of the documents argued it lied about…
Timothy Lynch Reviews The FBI’s First 100 years.

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….
Why We Don’t Trust The FBI

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…