Monday, July 14, 2025

Tag: FBI

‘There’s a smell of treason in the air’

FBI and NSA chiefs verify a Russia probe and refute the president's claims as Republicans scramble to pretend the “drip, drip, drip” hasn't started.

It is FBI Director James Comey who should be investigated

Comey has acted in an unwise and non-neutral way and that historians will place a good deal of the blame for the Trump disaster on him.

Former LA County Sheriff convicted on federal felony charges

While planning to appeal, former Sheriff Lee Baca faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

Federal judge: FBI can keep secret rules on warrantless espionage of...

“Whether it’s the Obama administration or the Trump administration, the government should not be able to keep its rules for spying on journalists without a court order secret.”

FBI agent arrested for shooting at police sergeant

The Grand Rapids Police Department announced that the department’s Major Case Team is investigating the incident while the FBI special agent remains in custody.

Former FBI Agent Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal sentenced the former FBI agent to three years in federal prison.

Unraveling Comey’s Political Fix

“It is unlikely that Comey’s highly flawed legal explanation for the FBI’s institutionally inappropriate spiking of the prosecution of Hillary Clinton will escape the political verdict rendered by Trump and others that it was ‘rigged.’”

What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Debate

The government has never been allowed to create a “backdoor” to encrypted devices. Now, it’s trying to force Apple to build one.

Apple Champions Privacy; Government Seeks to Trash It

Apple is, for now, fighting the US government's effort to force it to decrypt a San Bernadino terrorist's iPhone, arguing correctly that doing so would jeopardize encryption of all iPhones. But the company has a history of cooperating with the FBI in handing over phone and computer data of users, so why is it fighting this time?

Former House Speaker Pleads Guilty to Concealing Blackmail Payments

Former House Speaker, Dennis Hastert plead guilty on Wednesday to concealing $1.7 million in blackmail payments. In exchange for his guilty plea, federal prosecutors agreed to drop the second count—making false statements to the FBI.

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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...

As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.

Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...

New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.