FBI agents abused Patriot Act powers, report concludes
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Problems 'serious and must be addressed immediately' The FBI repeatedly broke the law by secretly accessing information about US citizens under a law passed to curb terrorism, according to the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General in a report that prompted a sharp rebuke from legislators and civil libertarians.â¦
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Top FBI fingerprint examiners gave in to peer pressure when they rushed to link an Oregon lawyer to a terrorist attack in Madrid this year, according to a panel of forensic experts convened to explain the ...
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A probe finds the bureau abused its expanded powers to obtain Americans' private records. Time to put the G-men on a shorter leash. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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FBI says the agency violated rules more than 1000 times while collecting personal data since 2002--many more abuses suspected.
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In a report to Congress this week, the Department of Justice said the FBI is using data mining programs to track everyone from potential terrorists to people who file fraudulent auto insurance claims.
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Members of a U.S. special operations  task force punched and abused prisoners in Iraq in front of  Defense Intelligence Agency agents and then threatened the  agents to try to keep them quiet, a document made public on  Tuesday stated.
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A memo from a senior FBI counterterrorism official has outlined three alleged cases of abuse in 2002 that FBI agents had become aware of while serving at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison.
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A federal judge today struck down parts of the new U.S.A. Patriot Act that authorized the F.B.I. to acquire corporate records using informal secret demands called national security letters.
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A federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that a key component of the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional because it allows the FBI to demand information from Internet service providers
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The FBI once regularly (and surreptitiously) broke into Americans' homes and offices. Now a Senate bill backed by President Bush seems to offer legal immunity to anyone who helps the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, or the NSA do just that.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - FBI agents combed the offices   of six Alaska state lawmakers on Thursday as part of a criminal   investigation, according to local news reports and lawmakers   not targeted in the probe.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignite...
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The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and one that held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a new report released today.
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The report takes the F.A.A. to task for failing to pursue domestic security measures that could conceivably have altered the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
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The FBI has fielded almost twice as many complaints from mortgage lenders so far this year as it did for all of 2003, the bureau reported Friday.
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The U.S. military has begun an  investigation into allegations by FBI agents of torture at the  Guantanamo prison, officials said on Wednesday, and newly  released documents showed 26 agents saw detainees abused.
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Three years ago, two dozen FBI agents raided the headquarters of the Global Relief Foundation outside Chicago, the second-largest Islamic charity in the United States. Without a warrant, they stripped it clean of records and froze $900,000 in assets.