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Thursday, February 14th, 2008By LEONARD PITTS JR. In the beginning was the fingerprint. It was in the 19th century that scientists realized the ridged whorls on the tip of the finger constituted a unique marker that could be used to tell one person from another. And eventually, the FBI built a massive database of fingerprints. Then came DNA. In the 20th century, scientists learned to use the double helix nucleic acid molecule ...
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FBI sought approval to use spyware
Saturday, February 9th, 2008By John Leyden Analysis The FBI has reportedly sought the go-ahead to use a custom spyware package to bug terrorists and other national security suspects. Indirect evidence suggests that the request was likely to have been approved. An application to use the Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier (CIPAV) spyware program was sought from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2005, according ...
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FBI Private Contractors With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Powers
Saturday, February 9th, 2008FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill' The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they're being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion. Matthew Rothschild Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing ...
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FBI to build $1Bn biometrics database
Thursday, February 7th, 2008The FBI is expected to announce this week the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to develop the largest and most comprehensive government biometrics database in history -- with information on the palm prints, eye scans, tattoos, and other identifying physical data of citizens and those who pass through. First up (...) are palm prints [said Thomas Bush, the FBI official in charge of the Clarksburg, West Virginia, facility where ...
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FBI whistleblower spills secrets
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Philip Giraldi Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Edmonds’s account is full of dates, places, and names. And if ...
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British Media Confirms Fbi Nuke Cover-up
Monday, January 21st, 2008RAW STORY The Sunday Times has obtained a document that confirms that a file, which the FBI denied existed, could contain information about American officials stealing nuclear secrets for Turkish and Israeli spies, who would then sell the secrets to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Earlier, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, 37, approached the Times about "explosive" communications she discovered between high-up American officials and Turkish and Israeli spies. A FOIA ...
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Let’s not spy for the FBI
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Plans for the US to access UK citizen's personal information via a shared international database are disturbing: we shouldn't sign up to it Nick Clegg News that the US government is in the process of constructing an international "wanted" database to share biometric information on a grand scale should be treated with caution. Biometrics - including DNA and fingerprints - are a vital weapon in the fight against crime. And ...
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FBI hits a hang-up with wiretaps
Friday, January 11th, 2008Surveillance shut off because of unpaid phone bills BY LARA JAKES JORDAN Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000....
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FBI aims to amass huge database
Monday, December 24th, 2007FBI aims to amass huge database of people's physical characteristics By Ellen Nakashima The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of people's physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement in Clarksburg. ...
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Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty
Monday, November 19th, 2007Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Unauthorized Computer Access and Naturalization Fraud WEBWIRE DETROIT – Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives ...
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New (and old) revelations of spying at the FBI
Sunday, November 18th, 2007News outlets are abuzz with the news of the guilty plea of Nada Nadim Prouty. Despite fraudulently acquiring her citizenship and having close familial ties to Hezbollah, Prouty was able to pass background checks for both the CIA and the FBI. Prouty pled guilty to improperly accessing the internal computer systems, apparently to get a status-check on investigations into Hezbollah, as well as herself and her family members. The agencies appear ...
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Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
Friday, November 16th, 2007Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds By Ryan Singel Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer." But it turns out that statement seems not to apply to individuals targeted by government agencies that ...
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The FBI’s Right To Threaten Torture
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007James Bovard A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still insists that its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision detailing how the FBI agent used the threat of torture to break an innocent ...
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La. Lawmaker Says Targeted by FBI
Thursday, October 25th, 2007By CAIN BURDEAU A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn't give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. State Sen. Derrick Shepherd denied any wrongdoing and said he has no evidence of wrongdoing by either Jefferson or Nagin. He has not been charged with a crime. Earlier this week, an ...
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Get your FBI file — and your NSA and CIA files too, while you’re at it
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Do you have an FBI file? You might! Many people do. So let's talk about your past. Did you ...
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... ever sign an edgy political petition?
... ever know a guy named "Joey the Horse?" (Ever help him take out any ...
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