SpyTalk Archive: Justice/FBI
Ivins case’s inconvenient issue: his polygraph
The FBI and the National Academy of Science today jousted over the quality of science applied to solve the 2001 anthrax attacks, but another inconvenient piece of the puzzle seems to have been artfully swept under the rug: the fact...
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Jeff Stein
| February 15, 2011; 6:03 PM ET |
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Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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Intelligence panels ignored CIA officer's pleas
Reform of the state secrets privilege, which allows the CIA and similar agencies to seek the dismissal of lawsuits by claiming they would harm national security, can't come come soon enough for ex-CIA officer Kevin Shipp. Last week Shipp went...
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Jeff Stein
| February 14, 2011; 5:50 PM ET |
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Congress, Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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Kevin Shipp; Rep. Frank R. Wolf; Mark Zaid
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Our Man in Havana
The U.S.-Cuba spy wars have long seemed more Monty Python than John Le Carré. As if more proof were needed, Cuban prosecutors announced Friday that they would seek a 20-year jail term for an American contractor arrested more than a...
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Jeff Stein
| February 7, 2011; 12:11 PM ET |
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Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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Alan Gross; Harry B. "Skip" Brandon; Saul Landau; Fidel Castro
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FBI in hundreds of privacy violations, report finds
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported nearly 800 violations of privacy laws and regulations to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board from 2001 to 2008, according to records obtained by a watchdog group. The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said...
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Jeff Stein
| January 31, 2011; 2:35 PM ET |
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Congress, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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Electronic Frontier Foundation; Sen. Patrick Leahy
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Lawyer in CIA leak case questioned by grand jury
A former lawyer for Jeffrey Sterling, a onetime CIA officer who has been charged with leaking secrets to New York Times reporter James Risen, was questioned about his client before a grand jury last September, he says. Washington, D.C. attorney...
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Jeff Stein
| January 23, 2011; 11:25 AM ET |
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Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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Rep. Peter King's plan for hearings on Muslim 'radicalization' draws criticism from all sides
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has to be hoping that his planned hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims draws as much attention as his mere announcement of them. Or maybe not....
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Jeff Stein
| January 21, 2011; 1:20 PM ET |
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