Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics, shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts.A provision of an intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents and transactions fr…
FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) — Federal agents Thursday raided the Fairfax offices of a Saudi-based institute that served as a meeting point for men convicted of conspiring to support terrorism.A task force of federal agents, including the FBI, carried out boxes but made no arrests in the raid of the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences.An FBI spokeswoman d…
WASHINGTON — The next domestic terrorist attack may come in the form of homicide bombings, the FBI warned law enforcement officials in a bulletin released on Thursday.In the lightly classified intelligence bulletin, the FBI said some telltale signs of a homicide bomber would be heavy bulky clothing on warm days, a chemical smell or people wearing jackets…
The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks provided details today of a number of shortcomings in the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts, saying the agency was not properly structured to root out terrorists in the United States and that the Justice Department was not sufficiently focused on the issue during the first months of the Bush…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned the Texas oil industry of potential attacks by Al Qaeda on pipelines and refineries near the time of the November presidential election, although it added that the information it had received was uncorroborated.An advisory sent to oil companies by the F.B.I. Houston Joint Terrorism Task Force said the informa…
WASHINGTON – The question of whether Timothy McVeigh may have had more accomplices is getting a new look after the FBI took the rare step of ordering a formal review of some aspects of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing investigation based on stories by The Associated Press. The FBI on Friday ordered agents to determine why some documents did not properly re…
WASHINGTON – The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI said terrorists may use almanacs “to assist w…
The decision of Russian and U.S. secret services to disclose their joint sting operation to nab the smuggler of a portable anti-aircraft missile in New Jersey is an unprecedented public relations coup designed to raise awareness of the vulnerability of passenger aircraft to terrorist attack as well as signal a further mending of ties ahead of a September…
WASHINGTON (AP) # One of the most damaging espionage cases in U.S. history was more the result of poor oversight by the FBI than master spying by Robert Hanssen, said a Justice Department report released Thursday. The FBI’s deficiencies, including an almost blind trust in its own agents, enabled Hanssen to spy for the Soviet Union and Russia for more than…
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – FBI agents have interviewed a Saudi man suspected of helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday. Omar al-Bayoumi was interviewed Sunday night by FBI agents in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah, where he lives, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the FBI agents were connect…