If you think the FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency, think again. The Bureau has long stationed agents as legal attaches in U.S. embassies overseas. After 9/11 the Bureau incorporated counterterrorism into its overseas operations and became truly a global law enforcement agency, complete with intelligence sharing worldwide. Last week the Bureau’s National Academy...
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FBI’s Former Top Lawyer: ‘There Was No Attempted Coup’
James Baker, formerly the top lawyer at the FBI, said politics did not figure in the Bureau’s decision to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The probe started before the Bureau received the dossier of Michael Steele, former British intelligence agent, Baker said in a live video interview on Friday....
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Echoing Bob Woodward, Republicans Seek an Investigation of Their Own
As House Democrats ramp up their investigations of President Trump in the wake of the revelations of the Mueller Report, congressional Republicans are seeking do to the same, with a boost from an unexpected source, legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward. Their targets: FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former British intelligence...
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How the FBI Profiles: From Bookstores to ‘Black Identity Extremists’
Last month Professor Joshua Clark Daniels excavated a forgotten story from the files of the FBI: the Bureau’s surveillance of black-owned bookstores from 1968 to 1974. Spying on bookstores might seem quaint in the the age of mass surveillance but there is a connection: how U.S. intelligence agencies see and understand their most vocal and...
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My Apologies to Maria Butina, a Trump-Russia Scapegoat
Last month in the New Republic magazine, veteran intelligence author James Bamford came to the defense of Maria Butina, the American University graduate student who has been often depicted as a Russian spy. I have done so on this blog. Bamford argued that Butina is not a spy but scapegoat for prosecutors with a weak...