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  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +26 +1

    Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement

    This month marks the 45th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971—while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold—a group of peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they could find... By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. (March 1, 2016)

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Apolatia
    +23 +1

    FBI investigates hacking of Democratic Party organization

    Cyber security experts and U.S. officials said on Monday there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails in order to influence the U.S. presidential election. The FBI said it was investigating a cyber intrusion at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which has led to discord as the party's convention in Philadelphia opens on Monday to nominate former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton as its candidate. Although the hacking of the DNC was known to officials and cyber security experts a month ago, the timing of the release...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by doodlegirl
    +32 +1

    FBI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Acting as Secret Chinese Agent

    An FBI employee has been arrested in New York for allegedly lying about secret work for Chinese businessmen and government officials, according to charging documents filed in the case unsealed today. Kun Shan "Joey" Chun pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government. He had been working for the FBI's New York field office as an electronics technician since 1997. He was quietly arrested in March after his own office sent an undercover agent to meet with him and record their conversations, according to the charging documents.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by grandsalami
    +29 +1

    FBI Dumps 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage From Black Lives Matter Protests

    It's been just over a year since amateur aviation sleuths first revealed the FBI's secret aerial surveillance of the civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland. Now, in response to a FOIA request from the ACLU, the Bureau has released more than 18 hours of aerial footage from the Baltimore protests captured by their once-secret spy planes, which regularly fly in circles above major cities and are commonly registered to fake companies.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Chubros
    +44 +1

    FBI chief Comey: “We have never had absolute privacy”

    FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at. Right now, the FBI can't read the data on those phones, because it's encrypted. For Comey, that's a problem. In remarks to the American Bar Association on Friday, he made it clear this is an issue he intends to bring up before Congress next year. While nothing other than the election will get politicians' attention during the next few months, Comey told the audience that he intends to gather data about how the problem of encryption...

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by sugartoad
    +57 +1

    The NSA hack proves Apple was right to fight the FBI

    It turns out Apple CEO Tim Cook is pretty much vindicated when he argued that the government can't keep a backdoor safe.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by zyery
    +2 +1

    FBI-owned Megaupload.org serves up porn and sex ads

    Megaupload.org used to be where you'd go to access the vast amount of films hosted by Kim Dotcom's Megaupload service. But once Dotcom was hit with US criminal charges, that site and many others were grabbed by the FBI, and visiting them produced nothing but a government seizure banner. No longer. Today, a visit to Megaupload.org (NSFW) brings up what can only be described as softcore porn.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by rawlings
    +39 +1

    Activists to FBI: Show Us Your Warrant for Mass Hack of TorMail Users

    Mass hacking is now one of the FBI's established tactics for fighting crime on the dark web. In February 2015, the agency hit at least 4,000 computers all over the world in an attempt to identify visitors of a child pornography site. But questions remain about another FBI operation from 2013, in which the agency may have hacked users of a dark web email service called TorMail even if they weren’t suspects of a crime. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is trying to unseal the court docket...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by junglman
    +36 +1

    Federal Judge: Hacking Someone's Computer Is Definitely a 'Search'

    Courts across the country can't seem to agree on whether the FBI's recent hacking activities ran afoul of the law—and the confusion has led to some fairly alarming theories about law enforcement's ability to remotely compromise computers. In numerous cases spawned from the FBI takeover of a darkweb site that hosted child abuse images, courts have been split on the legality of an FBI campaign that used a single warrant to hack thousands...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +27 +1

    BREAKING: FBI Take Several People Into Custody On the Belt Pkwy At the Verrazano Bridge

    A large police operation took place in Brooklyn near the Verazzno Bridge on Sunday night. Eyewitnesses report seeing over a dozen officers in swat gear armed with rifles and had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway. Multiple people were in custody. Senator Marty Golden said on Instagram that the arrests are due to a “possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea.”

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by rawlings
    +12 +1

    Mysterious incidents across U.S. raise fears of terrorism as more devices are found

    Authorities in New York took “a number of people” into custody overnight in connection with Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan, just as their counterparts in New Jersey worked to render safe “multiple improvised explosive devices” that were discovered at an Elizabeth, N.J., train station. Though officials did not immediately say whether the two developments were related, they sowed further concern about terrorism in the region and across the country. Police already had been investigating three weekend incidents...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by TentativePrince
    +33 +1

    The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup

    It’s bad enough that FBI Director James Comey agreed to pass out immunity deals like candy to material witnesses and potential targets of his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server. But now we learn that some of them were immunized despite lying to Comey’s investigators. In the latest bombshell from Congress’ probe into what’s looking more and more like an FBI whitewash (or coverup) of criminal behavior by the Democratic nominee and her aides, the Denver-based tech who destroyed subpoenaed emails from Clinton’s server allegedly lied to FBI agents after he got an immunity deal.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +9 +1

    EFF's Challenge Of NSL Gag Orders Reaches The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals

    "EFF points out that the gag orders have been stopping [providers] from discussing these limitations with Congress — even to the point of correcting bad information given to legislators by the FBI itself." By Tim Cushing.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by lexi6
    +39 +1

    FBI confirms: Officials discussed deal to cover up Clinton emails

    Newly released documents from the FBI's year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's server indicate officials discussed a deal in which the FBI considered declassifying some of the classified emails that were found, if the State Department could agree to boosting the FBI's presence in Iraq. FBI notes released Monday show that Patrick Kennedy, State's undersecretary for management, pressured the FBI to change the classified markings on an email that had been upgraded to "secret."

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by grandtheftsoul
    +21 +1

    Ex-FBI official: Clintons are a 'crime family'

    A former FBI official said Sunday that Bill and Hillary Clinton are part of a “crime family” and argued top officials hindered the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of State. During a radio interview with John Catsimatidis, former assistant FBI director James Kallstrom heaped praise on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before taking aim at the Clintons. “The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically,” Kallstrom said. “It’s like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.”

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +25 +1

    FBI releases docs from 2001 Rich probe days before election

    The FBI on Tuesday -- one week from Election Day -- released heavily redacted files from its 2001 investigation of President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. By Tom LoBianco and Pamela Brown.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by bradd
    +32 +1

    The Largest Bioterrorism Attack in US History Was An Attempt to Swing An Election

    In September of 1984, at least 751 people got violently sick in The Dalles, Oregon. At first, no one in the town could figure out why. Those sickened had all eaten at ten different restaurants in the area, but local health officials couldn’t find a common food that may have caused their illness. A year later, they finally figured it out: A local cult was trying to swing an election in its favor. The event remains the single largest bioterrorism attack on US soil.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by 8mm
    +30 +1

    Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy

    Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he’s [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.” Pressed for specifics, he said: “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.”

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by zritic
    +7 +1

    Clinton directed her maid to print out classified materials

    As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government e-mails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washin…

  • Download
    7 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +25 +1

    Against the Grain: The FBI and African American Writers

    Since its inception, one of the main preoccupations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been black rebellion.  From the early days of the Harlem Renaissance until at least J. Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI has had a fascinated fear of African American literature. William J. Maxwell discusses how the FBI extensively surveilled black writers — and how, in turn, African American literature was shaped by an awareness of the dangerously intrusive eye of the FBI.