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Information Technology: FBI Is Taking Steps to Develop an Enterprise Architecture, But Much Remains to Be Accomplished
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently modernizing its information technology systems to support its efforts to adopt a more bureau-wide, integrated approach to performing its mission. A key element of such systems modernization programs is the use of enterprise architecture, which is a blueprint of an agency's current and...
Gun Control and Terrorism: FBI Could Better Manage Firearm-Related Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records
Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from owning a gun under current law. Thus, during presale screening of prospective firearms purchasers, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System historically did not utilize terrorist watch list records. The paper determines how many checks have resulted in valid...
FBI Transformation: Data Inconclusive on Effects of Shift to Counterterrorism-Related Priorities on Traditional Crime Enforcement
As a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has committed to a transformation to increase its focus on national security. This report addresses questions about the extent to which the shift in resources has affected federal efforts to combat drug, white-collar,...
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Pa. couple sue federal agencies over no-fly list
Seeking to have their names stricken from the U.S. government's antiterrorist watch list, a Schuylkill County Muslim man and his wife filed suit yesterday against a host of federal agencies. Erich Scherfen, 37, and his wife, Rubina Tareen, 50, say they were unfairly added to the million-name Terrorist Screening Database...
Security Experts From Around the World to Convene in New York in December
SC Magazine, the longest running informationsecurity magazine in the world, has announced the leading speakers for itsinaugural SC World Congress, which will convene IT security professionalsfrom around the world. Ever wonder how Congress is getting involved incomputer security? Want to see how eBay protects your information?Curious to hear...
Ragsdale's sister receiving threats
PROVO -- Tamara Ragsdale said she's tired of getting blasted for trying to get her brother a fair trial and has even asked the FBI to investigate the death threats she's receiving. Ragsdale's brother David Ragsdale is sitting in the Utah County Jail awaiting trial for aggravated...
Senators delay on rules for U.S. security cases
WASHINGTON AP -- New rules on FBI investigations of national security cases should be delayed, top Senate Judiciary Committee members said Monday, raising concerns that ethnic or racial groups could be targeted despite no evidence of wrongdoing. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the senators...
FBI tossed anthrax type used in attacks
WASHINGTON -- Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had -- but destroyed -- the unique strain of the bacteria used in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now the government's top suspect. FBI officials admitted Monday that destroying...
Ivins tried to mislead FBI on anthrax
WASHINGTON -- The FBI said Monday that Bruce Ivins, the bioscientist who they say launched the 2001 anthrax attacks, helped them figure out how to collect the anthrax samples needed for the investigation. On Feb. 27, 2002, Ivins submitted a sample that didn't meet those standards. The FBI...
Editorial: Journalist Shield Law
The recently disclosed snooping by the FBI into journalists' phone records is one more example of why Congress should approve a federal shield law. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III apologized personally to editors at the New York Times and the Washington Post, revealing that agents improperly obtained the phone...
4C Controls Announces the Appointment of Dr. Philip Hayden as Vice President, Security Assessment & Threat Analysis
NEW YORK -- 4C Controls Inc. (OTCBB: FOUR.OB) today announced it has appointed FBI Supervising Special Agent (Ret.) Dr. Philip Hayden as its Vice President, Security Assessment & Threats Analysis. Dr. Hayden comes to 4C Controls after a distinguished career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dr. Philip...
Letter: Your Say - LOSE BOOZY MATE, GAZZA
IT IS most surprising that those responsible for trying to find Madeline McCann did not consider that she may have been abducted by a paedophile or a paedophile group. It is even more surprising that these people did not liaise with the FBI in this case;...
America's biodefense system has run amok
"Whatever you can say about the Soviet bioweapons scientists," a Bush administration official once told me, "they never killed anyone." We can't say the same about U.S. bioweapons scientists. Someone, most likely Bruce Ivins at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick,...
:: CRIME FBI confirms true identity of 'kidnapper' Rockefeller
The FBI said today that it had matched fingerprints from a German man's decades-old immigration papers to a kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller. The prints on Christian Gerhartsreiter's immigration papers from the 1980s matched those from a glass touched by Mr Rockefeller in July - around the time...
Psst -- leads from public to FBI rise
WASHINGTON -- Cynthia Stanton never knows what looms when she takes her first look into the computer queue of FBI tips awaiting her attention. Perhaps it's the key to a terrorism case -- or perhaps not. "'I saw Osama bin Laden driving a cab in Brooklyn,'...
Daschle: Proof in anthrax case 'complete'
WASHINGTON -- Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, whose Senate office received the first anthrax-tainted letter in 2001, says he is satisfied the FBI has found the culprit. Daschle, a former Democratic senator from South Dakota, called the Justice Department's case against Bruce Ivins, an anthrax scientist at...
A Case’s Last Bizarre Turn
When the FBI was scrambling to unravel the 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the first scientists they turned to for help was Bruce E. Ivins, a veteran researcher at the U.S. Army bioweapons lab in Fort Detrick, Md. But last week, the protracted anthrax probe took its most bizarre turn...
Doubts remain as case against 'anthrax killer' is revealed
PROSECUTORS IN Washington have made public the first details of their case against the government scientist suspected of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks. But doubt still persisted about the FBI's handling of the affair - including even whether Bruce Ivins was in fact responsible for the attacks that killed...
Gatorz Inc. Signs Marketing Agreement with Qivliq LLC
Gatorz Inc. ("Gatorz") (TSX VENTURE: GTZ) today announced that it has signed a three-year re-seller agreement with TKC Global, LLC, a Qivliq LLC subsidiary, to market and distribute Gatorz eyewear to the U.S. military and government agencies including the DEA, FBI and Homeland Security. In a separate agreement Qivliq LLC...
Anger in Pakistan as 'missing' scientist resurfaces in US court on
A US-TRAINED neuroscientist's appearance in a New York court charged with the attempted murder of American soldiers and FBI agents has sparked angry protests in her homeland of Pakistan. Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is under suspicion of having links to the al- Qa'ida terror network of Osama bin...
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