Law Enforcement & Intelligence
The latest coverage of the law enforcement community and all aspects of the U.S. intelligence.
Congress moves to crack down on feds buying Americans’ data from private brokers
The House Judiciary Committee wants to stop the U.S. government from buying Americans’ data after the intelligence community revealed it gets information from brokers who sell details from people’s cars, phones and other devices.
Britain’s MI6 chief says his spies are using AI to disrupt flow of weapons to Russia
British spies are already using artificial intelligence to hamper the supply of weapons to Russia, the head of Britain’s MI6 agency said Wednesday, predicting that Western spies will increasingly have to focus on tracking the malign use of AI by hostile states.
FBI Director Wray defends search of Mar-a-Lago: ‘Not a raid’
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray pushed back Wednesday against Republican critics who condemned the FBI’s search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to recover classified government documents.
Jordan sends budget recommendations to Appropriations, would move FBI to Alabama
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent several fiscal 2024 recommendations to the House Appropriations Committee, including one that would relocating the FBI to Huntsville, Alabama.
U.S. Capitol Police officer charged with possession of child pornography
A longtime U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested in Maryland for possession of child pornography.
Five questions FBI Director Wray must answer when he’s grilled by the House Judiciary Committee
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray is set to face off Wednesday with angry lawmakers in Congress who will demand answers to burning questions about how the bureau’s top brass handled the Hunter Biden probe, targeted Catholic parishes and ignored protocols in their zeal to find Trump-Russia collusion.
Whistleblowers: FBI failed to warn agents on social media censorship
Several FBI whistleblowers told the House Judiciary Committee on Monday that the bureau’s leaders failed to take steps to abide by a U.S. District judge’s temporary injunction against the Biden administration working with social media companies to censor speech.
To serve and reject: Distrust, stress leave top offices in U.S. police departments empty
An anti-police sentiment among politicians that feeds off an increasingly mistrustful — and vocal — public is convincing some of the nation’s top law enforcement officials to call it quits.
Pentagon cracks down after massive intel leaks in Teixeira case
The Pentagon said Wednesday it has tightened security to keep pace with the growing number of Defense Department facilities authorized to store and process classified information and provide guidance for the personnel who guard military secrets.
Hope and uncertainty linger as California turns the page on state-run youth prisons
Juvenile offenders in California might now have a better chance at rehabilitation instead of facing a mostly punitive sentence in a youth prison system that often only reinforced the patterns of neglect and violence that led many of them into trouble in the first place.
Gaetz asks FBI’s Wray for answers about a BLM-demonstrating agent who got promoted
Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling on FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to provide information about an agent believed to have been promoted after she took a knee in solidarity while in uniform and on duty at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest.
Kentucky attorney general asks FBI to investigate donations to his rival in governor’s race
Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office on Thursday asked the FBI to investigate a large infusion of campaign donations linked to a single credit card that flowed to the Kentucky Democratic Party and Gov. Andy Beshear’s reelection campaign.
Durham says FBI agents became emotional, apologized over bureau’s handling of Trump probe
Special counsel John Durham told lawmakers Wednesday that FBI agents who worked on the Trump-Russia collusion probe became emotional and apologized when confronted with intelligence that the investigation may have been part of a plan by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to distract from her use of a private email server.
Special counsel John Durham says FBI agents ‘apologized’ for Trump-Russia probe
Special counsel John Durham told House lawmakers on Wednesday that some FBI agents were so upset about how the Trump-Russia collusion probe was handled that they apologized to him.
