FBI

Barbara Comstock for Congress: Clinton scandal sleuth, impeachment advocate to run for House

Washington Secrets

Barbara Comstock for Congress: Clinton scandal sleuth, impeachment advocate to run for House

Paul Bedard · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rides a boat through the Mekong River Delta Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

John Kerry says US hasn’t abandoned Americans held in Iran

Charles Hoskinson · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

A report from Judicial Watch claims the FBI missed missed warning signs and failed to prevent a series of terrorist attacks, including the bombing at the Boston Marathon earlier this year and the Fort Hood massacre in 2009. (AP File)

National Security

Judicial Watch says FBI’s excessive concern about Muslim sensibilities endangers Americans

Mark Flatten · December 9, 2013 5:00 am

This undated handout photo provided by the family of Robert Levinson, shows retired-FBI agent Robert Levinson who went missing on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 and Levinson's family received these photographs of him in April 2011. In secret face-to-face talks with Iran, aimed at a deal to slow Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. team in a March 2013 meeting also raised concerns about Syria, Tehran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and the status of Levinson. (AP Photo/Levinson Family)

White House calls on Iran to return missing, ex-FBI agent

Brian Hughes · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

A photo of President Obama in a turban was among documents purged from FBI counter-terrorism training materials.(AP Image)

National Security

Obama, Eric Holder, cartoons and Lady Gaga are among the ‘inappropriate’ images purged from FBI counter-terror training

Mark Flatten · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

In recent years, many states have passed laws allowing police to take DNA samples at arrest -- before a suspect is charged with a crime, much less found guilty -- and enter them into state-level databases along with the national DNA database run by the FBI. (Thinkstock)

New questions raised about mandatory DNA swabbing by police

Eric Boehm · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

New America concluded that the NSA's phone record collection program "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism." (Photo: Thinkstock)

It’s not the Stasi, but the NSA is bad enough

Gene Healy · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

Mother Jones: Meet the punk rocker who can liberate your FBI file

Washington Examiner · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

Al Jazeera America reported it had obtained a sealed FBI affidavit alleging Ron Calderon Montebello accepted $88,000 in return for his help promoting bills. (AP Photo)

Lawmakers weigh action against embattled California senator

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

FBI probe into child sex abuse at Fort Meade

FBI probe into child sex abuse at Fort Meade

LOLITA C. BALDORPETE YOST · November 8, 2013 10:28 pm

Please Return; Reward Offered

Geoffrey Norman · November 8, 2013 3:24 pm

From 1992 to 2011, according to separate statistics from the FBI, the murder rate fell by roughly half, and forcible rapes dropped nearly 40 percent.

Violent crime on the rise again

Joseph Lawler · November 1, 2013 4:00 am