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Feds Probe Founder of 'Revenge Porn' Website

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:31:44 CDT

Federal officials are investigating the founder of a "revenge porn" website on which spurned spouses and lovers posted naked photos of former partners, according to ABC News . Hunter Moore, 26, admitted to Nightline that he started the site, called IsAnyoneUp.com, which he designed as a place for "public humiliation"...

Drone Strike Kills al-Qaeda Leader in Yemen

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:16:37 CDT

A top al-Qaeda leader wanted by the FBI died in a drone airstrike today, Yemeni officials say. Fahd al-Quso was stepping out of his car in a remote mountain valley of Yemen when the missile attack struck him and an aide, reports the AP . No comment so far from Washington,...

FBI: Anarchists Tried to Trigger Fake Bombs

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:12:13 CDT

The five men charged with plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge actually did attempt to detonate what they believed were real explosives, the FBI alleges. The men, unknowingly working with an FBI informant, repeatedly tried to use a text-message detonation code to blow up the fake bombs, which they...

Feds: 5 Anarchists Plotted to Bomb Ohio Bridge

Kevin Spak — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:51:36 CDT

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested five men yesterday for their role in an alleged plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland, officials revealed today. This isn't a case of international terrorism; at least three of the men are home-grown, self-proclaimed "anarchists," officials said, according to Fox News...

Allen West Slams Muslim-Friendly FBI Manual Edits

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:13:40 CDT

The FBI's purging of Islamaphobic references from its training manual puts us on the road to "cultural suicide," according to Florida Rep. Allen West. "We have to understand when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide," he said on Fox News, adding that "we should not...

How the Etan Patz Case Was Relaunched

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:25:05 CDT

The case of Etan Patz was opened in 1979 and almost closed five years ago, but a fairly low-ranking FBI agent brought it back into the limelight —culminating in the recent search of a New York City basement , reveals the New York Times . Agent Thomas McDonald took on the hopeless-looking...

FBI Targets New Suspect in Patz Case

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:06:38 CDT

The FBI has a new suspect in the 33-year-old disappearance of Etan Patz: a wood shop owner who once used the SoHo basement where cops are now digging for Patz's body, the New York Post reports. Othniel Miller, a 75-year-old living in Brooklyn, fell under suspicion after his ex-wife recently...

FBI Evidence Screw-Ups Hidden in Hundreds of Cases

Kevin Spak — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:58:05 CDT

Prosecutors have failed to notify hundreds of defendants and their attorneys about faulty FBI forensics work that may exonerate them, according to an in-depth Washington Post investigation. The Justice Department spent nine years—from 1996 to 2004—conducting what it calls an "exhaustive" review of 13 agents' forensic work from...

Pitt Hit With 57 Bomb Threats in 2 Months

Kevin Spak — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:08:58 CDT

Visit the University of Pittsburgh today, and you're going to spend a lot of time standing in lines. The school has implemented new regulations requiring every student and staff member to both show ID and have their bags searched before entering any campus building, the New York Times reports. Why?...