FBI abused power to get private records: report
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The FBI abused its power by illegally or improperly obtaining telephone, financial and other secret records in investigations of terrorism or espionage suspects, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Friday.
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FBI agents copied the computer hard  drive of a senior official at the American Israel Public  Affairs Committee in their investigation of a Pentagon analyst  suspected of turning over classified information to Israel,  people familiar with the matter said.
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A US court strikes down parts of the Patriot Act allowing the FBI to secretly access internet records.
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The FBI arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, Thursday in a federal corruption probe that spread across the state, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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The Justice Department has launched two internal investigations into the arrest of Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, who was detained by the FBI earlier this year because of a faulty fingerprint analysis that wrongly linked him to the deadly terrorist bombings in Madrid, according to a report released on Monday.
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NEW YORK -- Investigators for Hewlett-Packard Co. sought private telephone records of board members while hunting for leaks to the media of confidential company information, the computer maker said in a regulatory filing Wednesday.
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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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WASHINGTON - The FBI seized computers, software and equipment, including items at a Houston-area home in Bellaire, as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyright movies, music and games over an Internet peer-to-peer network, Attorney
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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 federal judge ruled that the provision broadly violated the Constitution by giving federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information.
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The ACLU and Muslim advocacy groups sued the FBI and the Justice Department on Tuesday, alleging that authorities failed to turn over records detailing suspected surveillance of the Muslim-American community.
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The FBI is collecting more foreign language material than it is able to translate, with audiotape backlogs now totaling hundreds of thousands of hours in material associated with terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a new
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The case examines the use of private detectives to obtain the phone records of board members and journalists.
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The FBI seized computers and software as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted materials over peer-to-peer networks, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced.
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The bureau must begin turning over thousands of documents related to its use and abuse of a powerful and secretive tactic.
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The American Civil Liberties Union  on Thursday accused the FBI and local police of spying on  political and faith-based groups and formally asked the  government for information about such FBI surveillance.
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An internal FBI audit has found the  agency violated rules more than 1,000 times while collecting  data on domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial  transactions in recent years, The Washington Post reported on  Thursday.