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January 23, 2009 -- The FBI is working with Canadian authorities to confirm the possible sighting of one of its Domestic Terrorism fugitives.

Last November, the Bureau announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of four eco-terrorists known as “The Family.”

Rebecca Rubin, one of the four fugitives, was spotted by a tipster who may have seen her near her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.

We received several tips about all of the fugitives as a result of the publicity.

Some of the information was pretty specific about Rebecca Rubin

The FBI is working through its agents assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to follow up on this information.    » read more »

Washington, D.C. -- August 11, 2008 -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sent a letter Monday to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller pressing the Director to provide more information to Committee members about the misuse of so-called “exigent letters.” Press accounts last week revealed that Mueller apologized to editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post for a 2004 breach of Department of Justice guidelines regarding subpoenas for reporters’ phone records.    » read more »

Mayor Bloomberg And Police Commissioner Kelly Announce New York City Remains The Safest Big City In America According To FBI Uniform Crime Report; New York City's Drop in Violent Crime Was Twice as Large as the Nation's

June 9, 2008 -- New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced that New York City remains the safest big city in America, according to the FBI's preliminary Uniform Crime Report for 2007. The report shows that, compared to 2006, the City experienced a 2.7 percent drop in overall crime last year.    » read more »

June 9, 2008 -- Washington, DC — U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, reiterated his call for the Congress and the Administration to fully support state and local law enforcement in wake of new data detailing nationwide decreases in murders, robberies and other felonies.    » read more »

May 22, 2008 -- SAN DIEGO -- California Attorney General Brown today shut down a team of scam artists that acquired deeds to hundreds of homes in foreclosure by convincing desperate consumers to place their property in a “land grant,” a phony and worthless real estate document.

Federal Land Grant Company—a San Diego-based business run by Bill Hutchings, his wife Xiaoke Li and former wife Shawna Landis—tricked desperate homeowners into believing that they could protect their homes from foreclosure by deeding their property to “federal land grants.” Land grant transfers, used hundreds of years ago when the United States was still acquiring land from other countries, are no longer recognized by any court or county assessor.    » read more »

May 20, 2008 -- “The Inspector General credits the FBI for maintaining a higher standard in the interrogation of detainees. In a majority of circumstances, agents at the FBI appear to have adhered to a clear policy in the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I still wish that Director Mueller had been more forthcoming when I asked him about these matters at our May 2004 hearing. Had he done so, he might have helped paved the way for Congress to investigate allegations of abuse sooner. The Republican majority refused to subpoena documents relating to the interrogation and treatment of detainees. The Bush administration has delayed four years in providing them. This remains a sorry chapter in our nation’s history.    » read more »

May 20, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) said he is seeking answers to questions raised in a report issued today by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report entitled, "A Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq." He released the following statement in response to the report’s release:    » read more »

May 20, 2008 -- WASHINGTON – Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., today released the following statement regarding the report released by the Department of Justice Inspector General entitled “A review of the FBI’s involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq.”

Bush protesters, March 2007: Photo by Andrew Ciscel (CC)

“Some have suggested that the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody was simply the result of a few bad apples acting on their own. The report released today by the Department of Justice Inspector General is proof that that is simply not true.    » read more »

20 May 2008 -- A U.S. Justice Department report says Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raised concerns about controversial interrogation techniques other U.S. agencies used on terror suspects.

The report, issued Tuesday, describes frequent clashes between the FBI and the military and Central Intelligence Agency over interrogation methods used in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantanamo protest, Washington, D.C.: Photo by Keith Ivey (CC)

It says the FBI raised concerns about questionable tactics including the use of snarling dogs and forced nudity.    » read more »

March 29, 2008 -- On Friday, March 28, the FBI identified the fifth body recovered by U.S. authorities in Iraq as Bert Nussbaumer of Austria.

Nussbaumer was employed by Crescent Security Group (CSG) at the time of his kidnapping on November 16, 2006.

The FBI has previously identified the remains of four Americans: Ronald J. Withrow of JPI Worldwide, and John Roy Young, Paul Christopher Johnson-Reuben, and Joshua Mark Munns of CSG.

The FBI’s Office of Victim Assistance has been in contact with the victims’ families since the men were kidnapped. The families were immediately notified once positive identification was made.    » read more »

Montana man’s history of committing sexual assaults on minors spans more than 25 years

WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 – A child sex offender with multiple prior convictions for offenses against children has been sentenced to life in prison on both counts for which he was convicted, to run concurrently, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Timothy J. Fuhrman, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, announced today.    » read more »

March 17, 2008 -- Today, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report entitled “Audit of the Department of Justice’s Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist Nominations Processes.” The report references many of the effective practices used by the FBI in the terrorist-screening process. In response, FBI Assistant Director John Miller made the following statement:

“We are working with the Department of Justice and our partner agencies to evaluate the OIG’s recommendations to ensure the proper balance between national security protection and the need for accurate, efficient, and streamlined watchlisting processes.    » read more »

March 13, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement after review of the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) use of National Security Letters (NSL) and 215 orders in 2006, as well as subsequent corrective actions taken last year.

The reports are linked below.    » read more »

Justice Department Report on Use of National Security Letters Shows Continued Problems

March 13, 2008 -- Washington, D.C. – Today, the Department of Justice released its review of the FBI’s use of National Security Letters. Following the report’s release, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, sponsor of the National Security Letter Reform Act, released the following statement:    » read more »

February 25, 2008 -- (This is a revised version of the original letter sent to the editor of Rolling Stone magazine in response to their article, The Fear Factory, which appeared in the February 7, 2008 edition. Rolling Stone printed an edited version to comport with their word limitations in the February 22, 2008 issue.)    » read more »