Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBI Claims it Doesn’t Have to Share Records with Justice Dept. Inspector General

By Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley | AllGov | June 29, 2015 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has continued to stonewall requests by the Department of Justice’s inspector general for records pertaining to multiple investigations by the internal watchdog. The FBI has contended since 2010 that the IG’s office lacks the legal authority to […]

FBI gave flawed testimony in trials before 2000: Report

Press TV – April 19, 2015 The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have admitted that almost every examiner with an FBI forensic unit presented flawed testimony in trials in which they provided evidence against criminal defendants for over two decades before 2000. Out of 28 examiners working for the FBI Laboratory’s […]

Court Rejects Request That Secret NSA Evidence Used Against Terrorism Suspect Be Shared With Suspect’s Lawyers

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | June 17, 2014 We’ve been following the case of Adel Daoud, an American citizen charged with terrorism. He’s one of the many, many folks that was arrested following one of the FBI’s infamous home grown plots (i.e. he was never actually involved in any terrorism, as all of his […]

‘Inventing terrorists’: New study reveals FBI set up terrorism-related prosecutions

RT | June 15, 2014 Nearly 95 per cent of terrorist arrests have been the result of FBI foiling its own entrapment plots as a part of the so-called post-9/11 War on Terror, a new study revealed. According to the report entitled ‘Inventing Terrorists: The Lawfare of Preemptive Prosecution’, the majority of arrests involved the […]