FBI Fumbled on Terror Financing, 9/11 Panel Says
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The FBI knew about specific  suspected al Qaeda fundraisers before the Sept. 11 attacks but  failed to tackle the problem, the Sept. 11 Commission said in a  staff report released on Saturday.
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A move to give terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in federal court fell short in the Senate today, even though it had majority support.
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The CIA estimates that prior to Sept. 11, Al Qaeda was spending about $30 million per year. Since then, the US has seized some $265 million in assets linked to the group.
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The government failed to ensure that recipients of terrorism-recovery loans were actually hurt by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, allowing banks to spread more than $3.7 billion in aid to whomever they wanted, Senate investigators concluded Wednesday.
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Following September 11, 2001, few questioned then-Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff 's urgency, but his critics contend that he was not candid with a Senate committee that he offered reassurance to on two fronts.
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The FBI said on Thursday it may have  to scrap a new $170 million computer program designed to allow  agents to share information instantly and fix a main problem  identified after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Federal officials re-created a floor system of the World Trade Center and conducted a fire test on it Wednesday as part of an investigation into the towers' collapse on Sept. 11, but results didn't immediately provide clear answers.
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Key members of Congress and the 9/11 commission make it clear that a federal board to protect civil liberties in the age of terrorism is not optional. But they're struggling to figure out how to establish it. By Ryan Singel.
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More than 120,000 hours of wiretapped conversations between terrorist suspects and sympathisers since the September 11 attacks have not been translated because of the FBI&#39;s lack of linguists, according to an official report.
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THE al-Qaeda terror network spent less than $US50,000 ($71,000) on each of its main attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings, a UN report says.
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The al-Qaida terrorist network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using
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After a delay of more than a year, a government board appointed to guard Americans' privacy and civil liberties during the war on terror has been told the inner workings of the government's electronic eavesdropping program.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.
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Surveillance powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush Administration&#39;s war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to US security policies.
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The FBI has failed to translate hundreds of thousands of hours of wiretap recordings from counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite steep increases in funding for new linguists and other translation services, according to a report released yesterday.
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Representative Nancy J. Pelosi said the formation of the panel was in response to the 9/11 panelâs recommendations and is part of an effort to make spending on intelligence more transparent.
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NEW YORK -- The FBI&#39;s legal attache to seven countries including Saudi Arabia during and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks sued the Department of Justice on Thursday, saying the FBI all but sabotaged his efforts in a petty ...