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Mar 9, 20203 min read
Hey Alexa, Who Hacked my Phone? Jeff Bezos’ Cellphone Hack’s Implications on National Cybersecurity
By Kimiya Gilani In 2018, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was the victim of a cyberattack that targeted his personal cell phone, an...
Nov 19, 20193 min read
Saudi Twitter Spies: The Line Between Espionage and Terrorism
By Regina DiMaggio In November 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged two former Twitter, Inc. employees with spying on...
Oct 28, 20196 min read
Watching the Watchmen: Do the FBI’s new Section 702 Querying Procedures Comply with the Fourth Amend
By Tucker Kelleher-Brozost On October 8, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released opinions by the U.S Foreign...
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Blurred Lines: Surprise Difficulties in Criminalizing Domestic Terrorism
By Maria L. Stratienko In late July and early August 2019, over the course of a single week, back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso,...
Oct 23, 20194 min read
Why Elhady v. Kable is a Gamechanger for the Counterterrorism Playbook
By Victoria Tinker Earlier this year on September 4th, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a long-awaited...
Feb 18, 20184 min read
Watching the Watchers: Legal Effects of the Section 702 Renewal
By: Carly Nuttall The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) first became law in 1978. Broadly speaking, FISA is a federal law that...
Oct 13, 20102 min read
The FBI and Technology: Do We Have an Expectation of Privacy?
In a speech last week at the State of Domestic Intelligence Reform conference organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, FBI director...
Feb 22, 20101 min read
FBI Closes Case on 2001 Anthrax Attacks
Eight years after the worst bioterrorism attack in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is closing the case. The FBI...
Feb 6, 20101 min read
Interagency Teams Begin Questioning Terror Suspects
Interagency interrogation teams were approved last week by the President. Interrogations have begun. Interrogators from the CIA, the...
Jan 19, 20101 min read
DOJ Charges 22 Over Bribery Involving Arms Sales to Africa
Twenty-two employees in the military and law enforcement industry have been indicted for engaging in schemes to bribe foreign government...
Jan 19, 20101 min read
Investigations Find FBI Conducted Illegal Phone Searches
The Washington Post is reporting that the FBI illegally collected telephone records from 2002 through 2006 by invoking nonexistent...
Jan 18, 20101 min read
Fort Hood Shooter’s Supervisors Ignored “Worrisome Behavior”
The Pentagon recently released an internal review of Fort Hood shooting. The review shows that the Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the accused Fort...
Jan 10, 20101 min read
Authorities Arrest Two Terror Suspects in New York
Yesterday, in Flushing, Queens, the FBI- NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and indicted two US citizens, Mr. Medunjanin and Mr....
Nov 22, 20091 min read
FBI Reports Cyber Threat to Congress
The Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division reported to Congress on Tuesday that “the FBI considers the cyber threat...
Nov 16, 20091 min read
FBI Monitoring Social Networking Sites
The FBI is continuing to investigate a recent poll that was posted on Facebook, an Internet social networking website. The poll asked...
Nov 11, 20091 min read
ACLU files suit against government officials for illegal detention and rendition of U.S. citizen
The ACLU yesterday filed suit against two FBI agents and two unknown U.S. government officials on behalf of Amir Meshal, of Tinton Falls,...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Former U.S. Government Scientist Charged with Delivering Classified Info
CNN reported today that Stewart David Nozette of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a former U.S. government scientist, has been charged with...
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