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FBI Burglars Come Forward After 43 Years Amid New Secrecy Debate
Activists who leaked data in 1971 call for leniency for Edward Snowden
It’s Official! James Comey Installed as New FBI Director
Comey previously served as a Department of Justice official during the Bush administration
The Hunt for the Marathon Bomber
The hunt for the killer behind Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings began within minutes of the attacks.
Political Pictures of the Week, May 5-11
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
FBI Unveils Broader Wall Street Insider Trading Probe
Rand Paul Has Some Lame Questions for FBI Chief Robert Mueller
There’s another Aug. 2 deadline looming in Washington that also features a stand-off between a Tea Party favorite and the Obama administration. Senator Rand Paul, the freshman from Kentucky, has placed a hold on the otherwise broadly supported bipartisan bill that would allow FBI Director Robert Mueller to extend his 10-year stint by …
FBI Opens File on NewsCorp, But 9/11 Victim Hacking Allegations Are Thin
The FBI is evaluating allegations that the phones of any victims of the 9/11 attacks or their families were hacked by reporters to see if the charges warrant investigations. “We’re aware of the allegations and we’re looking into the matter,” says Tim Flanelly, a spokesman for the New York field office of the Bureau.
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The FBI, the Patriot Act and Your Cell Phone
Mark Benjamin has an unsettling story on Time.com today that investigates whether federal authorities, under the auspices of a Patriot Act provision, are scooping up personal data like the location of citizens’ cellular phones. Read it here.
Behind the Decision to Ask Bob Mueller to Stay at the FBI
Attorney General Eric Holder stunned Bob Mueller when he told the FBI director late last month that President Obama wanted him to stay on for two more years. Mueller, 66, was already the longest serving director since J. Edgar …
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Enhanced Baloney
I am sitting here watching Congressman Peter King lie through his teeth on CNN about the role of torture in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. King is insisting that the initial information about the Bin Laden couriers …
Christine O’Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that federal authorities had opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Christine O’Donnell, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, had misused campaign contributions. The key facts went like this:
Although O’Donnell’s campaign has denied wrongdoing, she has acknowledged
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Speaking of Political Sex Scandals
No tickling here that we know of, but an important reminder that there is another member, Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada, who is under investigation — criminal investigation — for his alleged lucrative attempts to silence the husband of the staffer he was having an affair with, as Eric Litchblau and Eric Lipton of the New …