More Spy Powers for the FBI? Bad Move - businessweek.com, March 18, 2004
Now the feds are demanding that the FCC grant full access to tap all sorts of Net communications. It simply isn't necessary

4 November 2003 - Cryptome received a visit today from FBI Special Agents Todd Renner and Christopher Kelly from the FBI Counterterrorism Office in New York, 26 Federal Plaza, telephone (212) 384-1000. Both agents presented official ID and business cards. FBI Visits Cryptome

PATRIOT ACT: Law used against Las Vagas strip club owners - November 05, 2003, Las Vegas Review-Journal

See: rotten Library > Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Subpoenas are Coming!
Citing a provision of the Patriot Act, the FBI is sending letters to journalists telling them to secretly prepare to turn over their notes, e-mails and sources to the bureau. Should we throw out the First Amendment to nail a hacker?
By Mark Rasch Sep 29 2003

chapter about Louis Freeh from "The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI." by Ronald Kessler ... Kessler does not appear to think Freeh did a very good job.

August 29, 2003 FBI agent pays fine in shooting into hotel cooler - by Sito Negron - Las Vegas Sun - An FBI agent who fired two rounds into a walk-in cooler at a Strip hotel in May has paid the Barbary Coast $12,517 for the damage and paid a $105 fine after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge, authorities said. John Hanson III still faces investigation by his agency, said Special Agent Todd Palmer, spokesman for the FBI Las Vegas office

"potentially the most dangerous agency in the country if we are not scrutinized properly." - Louis Freeh, to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, 1997

"There (is) a cultural problem in the FBI that needs to be addressed. If it isn't, it's going to destroy itself." - Former FBI Special Agent Dan Vogel, speaking on CBS 60 Minutes II, May 29, 2001

Sex and Espionage in the FBI by Charles R. Smith NewsMax, Wednesday, April 16, 2003
FBI AFFIDAVIT on Katrina Leung [@softwar.net]

When The War on Terrorism Hits Home How the U.S. Department of Justice forced a man to leave the country, his wife and his two young children without proving he had any connection to terrorism by Seth Rosenfeld San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2003 - What is going on with FBI agent Michael Di Roma (Sacromento office?)?

Robert Mueller ...

• Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
• FBI Analysis: We Don't Compute - By Farhad Manjoo Wired May 30, 2002 ... "The FBI is the ultimate male driver driving on the highway who's lost, not asking for directions, not listening to anyone ... This is systemic of the FBI. They do not organize themselves."
• Why is Robert Mueller kissing up to the ADL? - Is Mueller planning to bring back COINTELPRO?
• Google News Search: Robert Mueller

Civil liberties & the FBI...

• We're Losing Our Civil Liberties for Nothing - David Morris, AlterNet May 30, 2002
• civil liberties fbi - news search

Is the FBI going after prostitution? New Orleans Brothel Made a Federal Case FBI Wiretap Finds Elite Clientele - Adam Nossiter, The Washington Post Monday, June 3, 2002

Are You on the No Fly List? The Progressive | 4/26/02 - One U.S. Marshal said the FBI compiles the list, and an FBI agent said it "comes out of headquarters." But a spokesperson for the FBI in Washington, Steve Berry, would not comment at all on the issue of the "No Fly" list, and referred all questions to the TSA, a new wing of the Department of Transportation.

FBI links from the FreeRepublic archives ..... lots of stories here. .....including
FBI says arrests broke up Y2K plot - Militia group sought to ignite holocaust, indictment contends
FHP admits it was wrong, drunk FBI agent caused fatal crash
FBI expert tell US: stay home
Former FBI Agent Indicted In Mob Case
FBI's lack of publicity on racist activity assailed
Former FBI Agent Arrested, Indicted

FBI agents said to oppose inquiry (shooting of Eagle Scout in Maryland) Baltimore Sun | March 15, 2002 | Gail Gibson Two senior agents from the FBI's Baltimore office told a private detective yesterday that the mistaken shooting of an unarmed Pasadena man likely would be ruled a "clean shoot," and discouraged him from looking into the case further, the investigator said in an interview. Dudley F.B. "Butch" Hodgson, a former FBI agent who has been retained by the shooting victim's lawyers, said he was told by one of the agents: "There's no middle ground in this thing. You're either with us or against us." A top FBI official said late yesterday that the investigation into the shooting March 1 of Joseph C. Schultz is far from complete and that any remarks made by the agents to Hodgson "clearly reflect their own personal opinions" - not the FBI's official position.
The Scout, the suspect and the SWAT team Shooting: Baltimore Sun | 18 March 2002 | Gail Gibson, Michael James and Laura Barnhard

Fatal Crash Raises Questions Did Investigators Protect Agent at Expense of Victims? By Brian Ross and David Scott ABCNews, March 8 - FBI agent David Farrall was driving this Honda Accord before he was involved in a head-on collision last November on Interstate 95, north of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Farrall survived the crash, but the two young men in the other vehicle did not. ... Suspicion of FBI Cover-Up When the patrol did begin to focus on Agent Farrall, it found the FBI less than forthcoming. Farrall had been moved inside North Broward Medical Center under an assumed name. When patrol investigators inquired, hospital personnel told them no such patient existed. A tip led investigators to the room where Farrall was recovering, but FBI agents standing guard at his door turned them away.

"It is amazing to me that Ashcroft is essentially trying to dismantle the bureau," said Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former FBI executive assistant director who was the primary architect of the FBI anti-terrorism strategy during the 1980s. "They don't know their history," he said, "and they are not listening to people who do."
Ex-FBI Officials Criticize Tactics On Terrorism Detention of Suspects Not Effective, They Say By Jim McGee Washington Post, November 28, 2001

The Israeli Spy Ring Scandal - The Story That Will Not Go Away - Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year.

LOS ANGELES, JAN 23 2002 - Heavily armed with high-powered machine guns, shot guns, and hand guns, the FBI, Secret Service, and Los Angeles Police Department sorounded the founder of raisethefist.com in his house. The founder was currently asleep, woken up by a relative who said fbi, police and undercover's were currently up and down all of the streets, with they're eyes focused on the premises. Raisethefist.com founder aproached the door were 2 FBI agents demanded that he step outside. Within seconds a swarm of FBI raided the house with automatic weapons and shot guns. Additional police and fbi also stayed on the front lawn, around the house with a door baracade and additional weapons. "armed and ready". FBI and secret service entered the house, seizing all servers and political liturature. raisethefist.com
What the FBI Doesn't Want You to See at RaisetheFist.com [articles about]
An interview with Sherman of RTF / LAAnarchists.org

FBI v. CIA: Battle in Cyberspace by Charles R. Smith, Nov. 28, 2001
U.S. Agencies Battle Each Other on the Internet. The U.S. government is struggling to rebuild its image after it failed to discover the plot to attack America on Sept. 11.

LAND OF THE FREE?
Political dissent can bring federal agents to door - By Kris Axtman, The Christian Science Monitor January 08, 2002
Lawyer: Student Was Held In Solitary 24-7 - NY Daily News ... 23-year-old San Diego college student — jailed as a witness in the terror probe — was kept in 24-hour solitary confinement in a tiny cell in lower Manhattan for more than two weeks, his lawyer said.
Questions Swirl Around Men Held in Terror Probe - Washington Post, October 15, 2001
When Freedom Is Not Normal In America - by Emil Guillermo, sfgate
FBI Considers Torture as Suspects Stay Silent - by Damian Whitworth, Times of London

Homeland Security, Homeland Profits By Wayne Madsen
Law enforcement agencies like the FBI already have at their disposal a massive information sharing network through which federal, state, local, and foreign police forces can exchange information on groups felt to pose a threat. The system, RISSNET, or Regional Information Sharing System Network, which existed before the September 11th attacks, recently got a boost when Congress authorized additional money for it in the USA PATRIOT Act. RISSNET is a secure intranet that connects 5,700 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states, as well as agencies in Ontario and Quebec, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Australia. According to sources close to the Washington Metropolitan Police, data on targeted local groups such as the Alliance for Global Justice, the anti-World Bank/International Monetary Fund activist organization, has been shared with other jurisdictions through RISSNET. -

FBI and Secret Service pay a visit Houston Art Museum
On Wednesday November 7th Terry Donaghoe, an FBI agent and Steven Smith, a Secret Service agent visited the “Secret Wars” exhibit at the Art Car Museum in Houston, Texas.

The FBI & Women in Black?
[FBI casting wide net ...] ... FBI Brands Reclaim The Streets as "Terrorists" by Slingshot June 27 2001

Beyond Carinovore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps - October 18, 2001 By Max Smetannikov , Interactive Week - The FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program past Carnivore?... FBI: A scathing General Accounting Office report recently found that the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center is falling far short in its mission — it's working poorly with other federal agencies and the private sector, and regularly warns of cyberattacks only after the fact. Many breathed an audible sigh of relief when former NIPC Director Michael Vatis moved on in January; he was deeply disliked by government agencies for his legendary megalomania. Incoming Director Ron Dick appears to be more even-handed, but he has inherited a sick organization that clearly needs to learn how to better serve its constituents. The FBI is accustomed to calling the shots and getting the glory. That approach clearly isn't working with cybercrime enforcement, which depends more on finessing relationships than on kicking butt.[FBI]

FBI's New Generation of Cointelpro by Hank Hoffman, In These Times , August 28, 2001
Is the FBI back in the business of trying to squelch political dissent? ... the final paragraph in Freeh's assessment of "left-wing extremist groups" that raised eyebrows among anti-globalization activists: "Anarchist and extremist socialist groups -- many of which, such as the Workers World Party, Reclaim the Streets and Carnival Against Capitalism ...

FBI Calling the Kettle Black Tim Wise, AlterNet
The Anti-Defamation League applauds Holocaust training for FBI agents. Would it be more useful to investigate the Anti-Defamation League connection to Jonathan Pollard and Marc Rich?