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FBI Director Robert Mueller rejected suggestions Wednesday that poor coordination between the FBI and New York Police Department damaged the investigation of an Afghan immigrant charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City.
FBI Director Robert Mueller says there's no imminent danger stemming from the case that led authorities to search New York City apartments for explosives and possible links to al-Qaida.
FBI Director Robert Mueller conceded to Congress Wednesday that turf fights persist between his agents and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives comfort to terrorists" all over the world.
Scotland's government defended itself Sunday against unrelenting criticism from the U.S. over the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber on compassionate grounds.
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday defended the agency's use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States could pose a number of risks, even if they were kept in maximum-security prisons. Responding to FBI concerns, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration would not put Americans at risk.
FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be sued by a former Sept. 11 detainee who claimed he was abused because of his religion and ethnicity, a sharply divided Supreme Court said Monday in a decision that could make it harder to sue top officials for the actions of low-level operatives.
Amid a flurry of meetings on domestic issues, President Barack Obama also is sitting down with Israeli President Shimon Peres to talk about the Middle East.
Federal agents and prosecutors are accelerating their probes of some financial fraud cases amid growing public demand for a quicker crackdown on Wall Street misdeeds, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday.
The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. But that won't change much for the detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba — Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold them. Human rights attorneys said they were disappointed that Obama didn't take a new stance.
Supreme Court justices voiced concern Wednesday about including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in a lawsuit that claims prisoners detained after the Sept. 11 attacks were abused because of their religion and ethnicity.
New rules for national security investigations will help protect Americans from terror attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers Tuesday, even if they single out people from the Middle East.
Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has apologized to the editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times for improperly obtaining phone records of the newspapers' reporters while investigating terrorism four years ago.
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, saying it may harm efforts to deter violent crime.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller must face a lawsuit that claims prisoners detained after Sept. 11 were abused because of their religion and ethnicity.
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday recalled warning the Justice Department and the Pentagon that some U.S. interrogation methods used against terrorists might be inappropriate, if not illegal.
The FBI is grappling with growing numbers of public corruption cases and a surge in mortgage fraud investigations, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday, wondering aloud whether Americans are "becoming more crooked."
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday described a "tremendous surge" in mortgage fraud investigations that he said has diverted agents from other cases and is expected to keep growing.
The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday that the agency is committed to investigating and prosecuting companies involved in mortgage fraud and other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers.
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday described as "misguided" a recent court decision that would prevent the government from obtaining personal, e-mail and financial records without a judge's approval.
FBI Director Robert Mueller struggled Tuesday to convince skeptical senators that — despite recent abuses — the FBI should retain Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records without a judge's approval.
FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.
US officials worry about homegrown terrorism plotsWASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Top Obama administration officials on Wednesday said recent arrests in alleged bombing plots highlight the challenges they face combating "self-radicalized, homegrown extremists" as well as foreigners in the United States determined to carry out at …
FBI director, Robert Mueller outraged by Lockerbie decisionFBI Director Robert Mueller is blasting the Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber and letting him return to Libya.
FBI Director Admits No One Has Died From MarijuanaAfter falsely claiming that fewer young people are using drugs today, FBI director Robert Mueller said marijuana should not be legalized. Moments later he had to admit that no adult has been killed by the drug.
Congressman: 'Then milk is a gateway drug to bourbon'. FBI Director Gets Schooled [Video] You have never before seen -- nor will you ever see again -- FBI director Robert Mueller so thoroughly humbled in a discussion about drug policy before the United States Congress.
A Tortured Decision - US Govt interrogator breaks 7-year silence about "false claims of effectiveness of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques" FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. I have spoken only in closed government hearings, as these matters were classified.
Senators seek delay in FBI's expanded spy powersTwo senior senators urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey Monday to delay a change to FBI rules that critics say would weaken checks on the bureau's investigative powers.
FBI Withdraws Digital Library's National Security LetterA nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.
FBI confirms stateside terror cells, credits U.S. Muslim communityFBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that the FBI has uncovered small groups of Al Qaida terrorists in the United States, although he declined to provide details.
Report on F.B.I. Use of Personal DataWASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made "significant progress" in how it handles the personal information of Americans as it pursues terrorists, but the agency has a way to go to stamp out all procedural abuses, a Justice Department report said on Thursday …
FBI deputizes Private Sector to assist "when—not if—martial law is declared"Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
FBI Calls on Universities to Guard Against SpiesThe National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, launched in 2005, consists of 20 university presidents around the country who are working with the FBI on matters of campus security and counter-terrorism to identify threats to students and staff.
Six Years After 9/11, Why We're Losing the War on Terror President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the Administration's "war on terror" actually made us safer?
Sibel Edmonds case: The real culprits of 911Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has made a number of disturbing claims about the 911 attacks, but perhaps the most disconcerting is her oft-repeated statement that the US authorities have covered up an entire organizational layer within al-Qaeda.
Editorial: Gonzales lost confidence of CongressFar from being an unfair partisan takedown, as Bush said Monday, Gonzales' fall was self-inflicted. He didn't display the independence and good judgment expected of the nation's top lawyer.
What Else Does FBI Director Mueller Know About Domestic Spying?The domestic snooping story doesn't end with the White House's bullying of an ailing John Ashcroft. Congress is still waiting for the FBI chief to answer serious questions about the administration's suspected abuse of national security letters.
Editorial: FBI vs. GonzalesWhen the Federal Bureau of Investigation questions the credibility of the attorney general, things get nasty. In the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, the FBI helped prosecute the crimes and cover-up.
Notes Detail Visit to Ashcroft's Hospital RoomJohn Ashcroft was "barely articulate," "feeble" and "clearly stressed" as he sat in a hospital room chair in March 2004 when top White House aides unsuccessfully tried to persuade him, as the Attorney General, to sign an extension for warrantless domestic eavesdroppin …
Did Gonzales Lie to the Senate?New testimony from FBI Director Robert Mueller suggests that the attorney general did not tell Congress the truth about warrantless wiretapping.
FBI Director Confirms Gonzales PerjuryWith a number of senators now charging Attorney General Gonzales with having perjured himself in his recent appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and calls for his prosecution proliferating, FBI Director Robert Mueller appeared on the House side yesterday and was aske …
WD Report 7/27/07Attorney General contradicted by FBI director and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to attack each other.
F.B.I. Chief Gives Account at Odds With Gonzales'sThe director of the F.B.I. offered testimony Thursday that sharply conflicted with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's sworn statements about a 2004 confrontation in which top Justice Department officials threatened to resign over a secret intelligence operation.
FBI Seeks To Pay Telecoms For DataThe FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use in counterterrorism investigations and is asking Congress for $5 million a year to defray the cost, according to …
Transcript: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on USA Patriot Act of 2001The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today continues its ongoing oversight of the USA PATRIOT Act, this is the third in a series of three hearings designed to educate members and the public as the Senate considers the repeal of the sunset provision, and modification to oth …
Ashcroft's lesson lost on GonzalesWho knew? Maybe the often-controversial John Ashcroft was a better U.S. attorney general than he has been given credit for. At least in one case, he certainly seemed to grasp the unique responsibilities of the office better than the current one, Alberto Gonzales.
FBI head Mueller responds to DeLay criticismFBI Director Robert Mueller yesterday defended his agency in the wake of criticism from former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) that it has dragged out an investigation of DeLay's wife and former political associates.
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