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'Credible' 9/11 Threat Hasn't Expired: Officials

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:02:15 CDT

Three words you don't want to hear in the same sentence: credible, threat, unresolved. Unfortunately, that's the word out of the National Counterterrorism Center. USA Today reports that NCC director Matthew Olsen, along with Janet Napolitano and Robert Mueller, today told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that while Sept. 11...

FBI Chief Calls Lockerbie Release 'Mockery' of Law

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:30:42 CDT

FBI chief Robert Mueller condemned the release of the Lockerbie bomber as “a mockery of the rule of law,” CNN reports. “Your action rewards a terrorist,” Mueller wrote to the Scottish official who released Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. “Where, I ask, is the justice?” wrote Mueller, who helped...

FBI to Expand Role Battling Terrorism

Matt Cantor — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:21:00 CDT

The FBI will take a bigger role in the fight against terrorism, the Los Angeles Times reports, moving into investigation and criminal prosecution of accused terrorists. The shift marks a change from the secretive CIA operations favored by the Bush administration, and ties in with President Obama’s assertion that most...

Supreme Court Dumps Suit Vs. Mueller, Ashcroft

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:29:11 CDT

The Supreme Court says a lawsuit against FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft by a former Sept. 11 detainee cannot go forward. The court today overturned a lower court decision that let Javaid Iqbal's lawsuit against the high-ranking officials proceed. Iqbal is a Pakistani Muslim who...

Push to Boost Diversity Backfires on FBI

M. Morris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:13:32 CDT

Luckily for the FBI, photos can't talk. The bureau's website promotes its American Indian/Alaskan Native diversity program with a picture of an agent who says she was fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle about racial insensitivity, "In the Loop" columnist Al Kamen reports for the Washington Post. Sen. Chuck...

Pakistan Not Cooperating in Search for Militants: US

Katherine Thompson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:23:51 CDT

US intelligence officials are frustrated by what they see as Islamabad’s roadblocks in efforts to investigate terrorist cells with ties to Pakistan, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pakistanis living in European countries, who can enter the US without much scrutiny, remain a worry for the CIA and FBI, whose director...

Prez Obama to Work With Key Bush Holdovers

Matt Cantor — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:59:47 CST

As he addresses the most serious problems that face the country, Barack Obama will have to work with several key Bush appointees whose tenure will last a year or two into his administration, the Washington Post reports. But experts say dealing with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Joint Chiefs head Michael...

Senate Grills FBI on Anthrax, Ivins

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:02:05 CDT

Senators cast strong doubts today on the FBI's conclusion that Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax scare, reports the Washington Post, with many demanding a more public vetting of the investigation into America’s largest bioterror attack. "There are others out there who should be charged with murder," said...

Justices Will Decide If Immigrant Can Sue Ashcroft

Jonas Oransky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:01:02 CDT

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal from John Ashcroft, with the former attorney general insisting top government officials cannot be sued by immigrants who allege they were beaten and abused after 9/11. Lower courts have refused to dismiss a suit from a man who was held for...