FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act Abuse
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An internal investigation is looking into the misuse of National Security Letters to gain access to Americans' phone records, top bureau officials tell privacy groups.
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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 U.S. military's regional command in  Miami launched an investigation on Wednesday into FBI agents'  allegations that interrogators tortured prisoners at the  Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
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The FBI illegally or improperly obtained information on the US public, a new justice department report says.
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Members of Congress vowed today to conduct investigative hearings -- and consider reining in parts of the Patriot Act -- following revelations of pervasive problems in the FBI's use of national security letters to secretly obtain telephone, e-mail and financial records in terrorism cases.
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The watchdog group that first provided the FBI with suspicious e-mails from then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) said yesterday that FBI and Justice Department officials are  attempting to cover up their inaction in the case by making false claims about the group.
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Investigators will look into allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay described in recently released FBI documents, authorities said, as a new batch of FBI memos was released.
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By LAURIE KELLMAN  WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats and some Republicans are trying to change part of the USA Patriot Act that allows the Bush administration to fire and replace federal prosecutors indefinitely without Senate confirmation.
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he FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases, according to a Justice Department audit
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A secretive office deep in the J. Edgar Hoover Building may have harbored Patriot Act abuses.
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FBI demands to telecommunications companies went beyond requesting phone records of customers under suspicion to include analyses of their broader patterns of communication with others as well, newly obtained documents show.
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Lobbying organization is embroiled in an FBI probe into whether Pentagon officials gave its representatives classified material and whether they in turn passed it to the Israeli government.
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The FBI failed to report accurately how many people it snooped on using anti-terror measures, officials said a government audit revealed today. Demands for banks and phone companies to hand over people's private information without telling them may also have gone beyond what is allowed by the Patriot Act, officials with access to the report told CNN.
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The Justice Department's watchdog office has opened an investigation into the arrest of an Oregon lawyer that was based on what turned out to be faulty FBI analysis of a fingerprint linked to the deadly terrorist attack in Spain last March.
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Government official calls for tools to help investigators sift through increasing amounts of data seized by law enforcement.
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THE FBI is investigating whether an aide to the Pentagon&#39;s No. 3 official acted as a spy for Israel. In what may be the most embarrassing security breach for years, it is understood the unidentified employee
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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.