The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse houses the FISA court.
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No probable cause, no public records – this is not a typical criminal court.
Trump with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Dec. 15, 2017.
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The FBI has long fed Congress secret intel. Trump and Nunes’ fight to release classified information may turn this dynamic on its head.
Bill Clinton, at a wind farm in Panama’s Cocle province built with the Clinton Foundation’s support.
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The foundation initially seemed well-suited for cleaning up Bill Clinton’s legacy after the Monica Lewinsky scandal’s ugliness. That’s no longer true.
Most U.S. law enforcement agencies didn’t report any hate crimes to the FBI in 2016.
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There’s still far too much we don’t know about hate crimes in the US – and that affects how we study and enforce these crimes.
Who should be allowed inside?
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Scholars dig in to the debate on whether police should be able to defeat or circumvent encryption systems.
What’s the best way to keep data secure?
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The FBI and police officials say they need to decrypt secure communications to fight crime. But they have other options, and modern threats make clear the importance of strong encryption.
Australian government agencies are employing the services of spyware company Cellebrite.
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The Australian government is using spyware. Is that legal?
Muslim women hold signs to express opposition to hate crimes and rhetoric.
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FBI data show that in 2015 anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked to the highest level since 2001. A scholar finds political rhetoric correlates to both sharp increases and decreases in hate crime.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
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Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
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Russia is dangerous, the president lied, and now it’s up to the special counsel.
In the years leading up to World War II, Ivan Maisky and Winston Churchill developed a close friendship.
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The Soviet ambassador to London showed that charm and contacts can trump espionage when it comes to gathering information.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Hoover abused his power as FBI director to serve presidents’ interests. The reforms that followed were set up to prevent it from happening again.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2011.
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How will Mueller perform as special counsel? A historian compares his actions with another former FBI director to find out.
President Donald Trump greets Director of the FBI James Comey in January.
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Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
Classified documents.
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A professor who once held top secret clearance explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.
Trump and Lavrov in the Oval Office on May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)
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Whispering secrets is a sign of a lack of trust.
People protest Comey’s firing in Los Angeles on May 10, 2017.
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The author of a seminal work in the field of political psychology reveals two big mistakes the president made.
James Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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An FBI historian tells stories from the agency’s ups and downs over 109 years and four dismissed directors.
But firing people is what I’m famous for…
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And the president could learn plenty from the fate of a complacent Richard Nixon.
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Trump’s sacking of his FBI director won’t stop intelligence leaks – or the official investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US election.