City delays mailing protest letter to FBI
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 07. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Chicago Tribune
July 7, 2009
IOWA CITY, Iowa. – The Iowa City City Council has decided to hold off for now on registering a protest with the FBI for the agency’s infiltration of a local anti-war group.
The City Council’s became concerned about the issue following a published report that the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an agent [...]
Lockheed Martin wins $47M FBI contract
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 22. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Darlene Darcy
Washington Business Journal
June 22, 2009
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a contract worth up to $47 million from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to convert paper identification records to electronic records for the agency.
Under the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division’s Card Scanning Service program, which Lockheed has been managing for about a decade, the [...]
FBI Seeks to Target Lone Extremists
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 15. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
GARY FIELDS and EVAN PEREZ
The Wall Street Journal
June 15, 2009
The recent killings of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard and a Kansas abortion doctor came a few months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped up efforts to pre-empt violence committed by just such political extremists working alone.
“Lone-wolf offenders continue to be of great [...]
‘Lone wolf’ terrorists elusive targets
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 14. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press
June 14, 2009
An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church.
Three chilling, unconnected slayings in less than two weeks. One gunman was a white supremacist, [...]
Carradine mystery deepens, family seeks FBI help
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 07. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Ploy Chitsomboon and Bob Tourtellotte
Reuters
June 7, 2009
BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The family of actor David Carradine has asked U.S. authorities to help unravel the mystery of his death, amid conflicting reports about how his body was found hanging naked in a Bangkok hotel.
Mark Geragos, a Los Angeles attorney who represented Carradine’s brother, Keith Carradine, said [...]
FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 24. May, 2009 | No Comments
Tony Allen-Mills
Times Online
May 24, 2009
ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt an apparent terrorist plot to blow up a synagogue and shoot down military aircraft.
The mayor was flanked by more than 100 homeland security and [...]