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11 October 2007 -- A U.S. rights group is suing the private security firm, Blackwater, on behalf of victims of a deadly shooting last month in Baghdad.

The Center for Constitutional Rights said Thursday it is filing the suit in a U.S. court for one survivor and the families of three of those who died. The suit accuses Blackwater of murder and war crimes, and it seeks unspecified damages.

Blackwater has not commented on the lawsuit. It has said in the past that its guards were lawfully responding to an attack on a U.S. diplomatic convey they were escorting in the Iraqi capital.    » read more »

Biden : “Administration, Congress Must Recommit to Fighting Crime”

September 25, 2007 -- Washington, DC–U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, renewed his call to fully fund the successful COPS program in light of the FBI annual report detailing nationwide increases in violent crime for the second consecutive year.    » read more »

SBI, FBI and Chapel Hill police worked to capture fugitive

August 31, 2007 -- Raleigh: John Gregory McCormick, a missing Chapel Hill man accused of embezzling over $1 million from clients, was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona this morning, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today.    » read more »

June 19, 2007 -- The FBI today announces the Bureau-wide deployment of the first phase of Sentinel, the FBI’s next-generation information management system.    » read more »

June 13, 2007 -- Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security awareness of botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST is a national initiative and ongoing investigations have identified over 1 million victim computer IP addresses.    » read more »

Specification For the Cable Industry to Comply with The Communications Assistance Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

June 12, 2007 -- The FBI responded to CableLabs' release of a technical specification developed to facilitate the cable industry's compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The Cable Broadband Intercept Specification represents the cable industry's interface specifications for broadband data communication services.    » read more »

June 14, 2007 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. gave the following statement at the House Judiciary Committee Legislative Hearing on H.R. 2102, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007:

Today’s hearing considers the import of one of our nation’s core liberties – freedom of the press, and the right of reporters to maintain confidential sources.    » read more »

June 14, 2007 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, FBI officials briefed House Judiciary Committee staff on a new draft audit report detailing the bureau's use of National Security Letters (NSLs). The briefing served to update and correct prior statements to Congress, since the release of an earlier Inspector General report. The FBI confirmed that they found more abuses in the use of NSLs than the IG's report had originally found. FBI officials say they are launching a new compliance program as a result.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) had the following statement:    » read more »

June 5, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A former civilian employee of the Department of Defense (DOD) and former member of the California Army National Guard, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States and conspiring with four other individuals to do the same, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.    » read more »

June 4, 2007 -- Washington, DC —U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, renewed his call to fully fund the successful COPS program in light of today's FBI annual report detailing nationwide increases in violent crime for the second consecutive year.    » read more »

Plot Targets Airport’s Jet Fuel Supply Tanks and Pipeline; Defendants Include Extremists in United States, Guyana, and Trinidad

June 2, 2007 -- BROOKLYN, NY – Four individuals, including a former member of the parliament of Guyana and a former airport cargo worker at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), have been charged with conspiring to attack JFK airport by planting explosives to blow up the airport’s major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline.    » read more »

05-31-2007 -- The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee today announced that former Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, has put his support behind Rudy Giuliani for President of the United States. Freeh will serve as Senior Homeland Security Advisor and Chair of the Mayor’s campaign in Delaware.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The 50th felony conviction from Operation FastLink, a major Department of Justice initiative to combat online piracy worldwide, was announced today by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- Washington, D.C.—Preliminary statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicate that 48 law enforcement officers died in 2006 as a result of felonious line-of-duty attacks. Nearly half of the officers (22) were killed in the South; 11 officers were murdered in the West; 7 officers were slain in the Northeast; 6 were killed in the Midwest; and 2 officers were slain in the territory of Puerto Rico. The number of officers feloniously killed in the Nation was 7 fewer than those slain in the line of duty in 2005.    » read more »