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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, UK employers are being warned they need to think long and hard before introducing biometric technology such as iris, fingerprint and palm scans into the workplace.
British HR and employment law organisation Croner has said employers are increasingly turning to ...
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The ‘War Crimes File’
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Hartford Courant | It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American military and CIA operatives against terror suspects detained in U.S.-run detention centers.
According to a report by the Justice Department's inspector general, FBI agents ...
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FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
Saturday, May 24th, 2008By Bill Van Auken | The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports. The World Socialist Web Site, together with human rights ...
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Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the same message over and over and with diminishing results.
That's how I felt after 8 months of silence after labeling the credit crisis a "subcrime" scandal, ...
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Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge of setting telephone wiretaps on suspected drug dealers and mobsters for the FBI's New York City field office.
In New York, Kallstrom's cases were often won ...
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FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio reported.According to the Journal, the agents seized computers and documents belonging to the head of the agency, Scott Bloch, and his ...
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FBI wants widespread monitoring of ‘illegal’ web activity
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Anne Broache |
The FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, appears to go beyond a current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks. Mueller seemed to suggest that the bureau should have ...
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FBI: We Warned About Torture of Detainees
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
AP |
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday recalled warning the Justice Department and the Pentagon that some U.S. interrogation methods used against terrorists might be inappropriate, if not illegal.
Mueller's comments came under pointed questioning by House Democrats demanding to know if the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to stop interrogations in 2002 that critics define as torture.
Mueller said the FBI does not ...
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FBI manufactured evidence
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008FBI Caused Delay in Terror Case Ahead of Senate Testimony. By Ryan Singel | Wired Counterterrorism officials in FBI headquarters slowed an investigation into a possible conspirator in the 2005 London bombings by forcing a field agent to return documents acquired from a U.S. university. Why? Because the agent received the documents through a lawful subpoena, while headquarters wanted him to demand the records under ...
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Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order John Byrne The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and given to the Washington Post -- which stuck ...
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Where Was Media When Sub-Prime Disaster Unfolded?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008"It is somewhat surprising," Larry Elliott, economics editor of London's The Guardian observed recently, "that there is not already rioting in the streets, given the gigantic fraud perpetrated by the financial elite at the expense of ordinary Americans.” If such a fraud was taking place, and if Wall Street’s financial crisis, according to the usually staid Economist, was on the edge of “disaster” with a “financial nuclear winter” ...
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FBI posts hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
Friday, March 28th, 2008The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and ...
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‘FBI continues to break the law’
Friday, March 14th, 2008The Justice Department's Inspector General has reported the FBI continues to illegally obtain personal information about Americans. 'It is too early to tell whether these measures will eliminate fully the problems,' Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said in his second report in two years on the use of national security letters to obtain personal information. Fine said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Justice Department ...
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FBI head: Give telcos immunity
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Nick Julian
At the heart of President Bush's plea to give telecommunications companies legal immunity is the contention that these companies were merely being patriotic corporate citizens when they facilitated the warrantless wiretapping of Americans.
FBI Director Robert Mueller undercut that argument Wednesday, telling Congress that the 'good faith' argument should have nothing to do with whether or not ...
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Business spies for FBI eyes
Thursday, February 14th, 2008By Jerry Mazza In George Bush’s mania to outdo George Orwell’s 1984, we bring you more than 23,000 members of private industry working quietly with the FBI and Department of Homeland Insecurity under the banner of InfraGard, i.e., the joint government/business program to guard (not rebuild) our infrastructure. Get it? Wanta forget it? Can’t. They’ll be climbing ...
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