The Federal Bureau of Investigation is monitoring the web for potential terrorist activity, the Internet giant Google says in a transparency report. The Federal Bureau of Investigation used National Security Letters -- a form of surveillance that privacy watchdogs call 'frightening and invasive' -- to surreptitiously seek information on Google users, the web giant revealed.
With the internet abuzz with stories related to Osama bin Laden's death, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning people not to open unsolicited links that "purport" to show photos or videos of the Al Qaeda leader's killing, saying these could be computer virus.
The bogus message goes on to say that the user's Internet address was identified by the FBI or the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section as having been associated with child pornography sites or other illegal online activity, the FBI said in a statement.
For four years from 2002 to 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation violated its own law related to phone tapping as it illegally collected over 2,000 US telephone call records by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist, a media report said on Tuesday.
The United States on Monday assured India of "speedy justice" to the Indian-American victims of hate-related crimes as the Indian envoy here reached out to the State Department to convey his "deep concerns" over such tragic incidents.
Offering an unprecedented level of cooperation to Indian authorities probing the Mumbai terror case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it will not seek custody of the perpetrators of the ghastly attacks, that also killed six Americans, and will let India prosecute them.
The FBI chief said that in the last presidential elections, the Russians were not able to change the actual vote tally, but one day they might.
"Have been told that medical board's advice in late Sunanda's case has been received," Delhi police Commissioner BS Bassi said in a tweet.
An FBI spokesperson told PTI on Saturday, "The FBI continues to assist the Government of India with their investigation into last year's attacks in Mumbai. The FBI has been working with the Indian authorities as well as our partners to cover all leads, wherever they may take us." His remarks came in response to a question on the claim early this week by scrap dealer, Anita Uddaiya that she was taken to the US for further interrogation by the FBI.
Former Union home secretary-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party leader RK Singh spills the beans on Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN.
The International Cricket Council was the target of cybercrime involving a wire transfer of a sizeable sum of money, roughly US$ 2.5 million.
The US officials estimate that the widespread carnage could have been carried out for relatively small price tag of between $100,000 (almost 50 lakh) and $200,000 (almost 1 crore), which, they say, is the cost of machine guns, grenades, ammunition and boats used, said ABC News.
Acting on a tip off, a joint team of the Federal Investigation Agency, the Special Services Group and FBI left for Bannu, bordering Afghanistan on Sunday in search of Amjad Farooqi, who is believed to have planned the attacks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a nationwide manhunt and alerted Interpol to locate one of its most-wanted fugitives, Indian-origin doctor Gautam Gupta whose ads promising weight loss are well-known, for allegedly defrauding United States insurance companies of $25 million over the last decade.
The gunman who killed six people at a gurdwara in Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head after he was shot by police, the FBI announced today and said it was still treating the case as an "act of domestic terrorism".
The Federal Bureau of Investigation team, which arrived in Mumbai, has commenced work on the Mumbai terror attack case. The six- member team which arrived in Mumbai a day ago got to work on Monday morning.
As part of an exchange programme, a team of Federal Bureau of Investigation officers arrived in Mumbai on Thursday and held deliberations with the top brass of the city police and exchanged views on tackling terror and other crimes.
The students -- Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid -- were walking on Prospect Street after visiting a relative in Burlington for the Thanksgiving holiday when "they were confronted by a white man with a handgun."
Ten months after the horrific massacre of Sikhs at Oak Creek gurdwara, the advisory board of FBI votes to create a new separate hate crimes category to help track such attacks against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs. Aziz Haniffa reports
A pilot of a commercial jetliner has reported that he spotted a "black" drone aircraft hovering near his plane on landing at JFK airport here and his claim is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A Pakistani-American man has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of providing material support to terrorists involved in the 2009 suicide attack at the Inter-Services Intelligence headquarters in Lahore that killed 30 people and wounded more than 300 others.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley approached the Inter-Services Intelligence to help another co-accused in Mumbai attacks Tahawwur Rana to get back to Pakistan, according to a video recording produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation before a court in Chicago on Monday.
According to the Mirror, more than 1,000 FBI agents are working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston.
"San Bernardino involved two killers who were radicalised for quite a long time before their attack," FBI Director James Comey said.
Flynn appeared before a federal court on Friday morning to plead guilty after ex-FBI director Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of Russian interference in the presidential election as a special counsel, announced that Flynn was charged with "wilfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his conversations with Russia's then ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.
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The move came amid media reports that militants, especially members of the Islamic State, are popping addictive pills, which help "fuel their fury", before attacking the victims.
Observing that Al Qaeda and its affiliates are still committed to striking the United States, a top American intelligence official has told US lawmakers that lone-wolf and homegrown extremist now poses an equally serious threat to the country.
Indian investigators will soon get access to terror suspect David Headley as United States authorities are working out the logistics of where and when they can question the Pakistani-American in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks, an official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday. "In the plea agreement, Headley did agree to meet with Indian authorities. I think right now we are just trying to work out the logistics and scheduling of that," said FBI.
Agencies probing the 26/11 case will seek voice samples of David Headley and Tahawwur Rana -- the terror suspects -- from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ascertain the duo's role in the Mumbai terror attacks.
In "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership", James Comey will "explore what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions", according to Pan Macmillan, which has acquired the publishing rights in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth excluding Canada.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into the massacre of six people inside a Gurudwara in Wisconsin, described as the deadliest attack against the Sikh community in the US, as authorities termed the shooting spree of Wade Michael Page, the lone white gunman, as "domestic terrorism".
India said it was awaiting further information from the US with regard to probe against suspected Lashkar operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana arrested in Chicago in October. The FBI revealed to India two weeks ago that the LeT were linked to the Mumbai attacks.
A team of officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States' Department of Justice, currently in India, will travel to Pakistan to follow up on leads about Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley's activities there. The team, which briefed Indian officials on Monday in New Delhi, will travel to Pakistan, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said. Kelly said the FBI has been consulting closely with Pakistani authorities on this case.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday said the unprecedented level of cooperation between the investigative agencies of India and the United States following the Mumbai strikes has strengthened Indo-US ties.
The United States has offered the Federal Bureau of Investigation's help in its investigation into the Pune bomb blast. United States Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer on Wednesday said his country has offered 'help' after the Pune attack, which has left 11 people dead and many injured."If the Indian government, at some point, wants any help, wants any assistance, whether it's the FBI's assistance or other kinds of help, we are welcome to work with them," he told reporters
'I am convinced Headley was working for the Americans, for the FBI. I had nicknamed him agent Headley,' Rahul said in an interview to UK's Channel 4.
The Northwest Airlines flight, targeted by a terror suspect on Christmas, came under scanner once again as the crew asked for emergency assistance for a disruptive passenger who was arrested after the plane landed in Detroit, but the FBI termed it as a "non-serious incident".
'King of Pop' Michael Jackson was suspected to be a terror target during the 2004 child molestation trial, reveals the secret Federal Bureau of Investigation file on the pop icon which was made public on Wednesday.
In a crucial testimony, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday told a special court trying the Mumbai terror attack case that Global Positioning System devices used by terrorists had indicated that they had come from Karachi.
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