This week, as if to add insult to injury, we have learned that US FBI officials have identified five suspects in the attack.
There was a time when my employer was contracted to do the programming for a phase of the US FBI's "Low Speed Fingerprint Imaging and Acquisition" system.
He also believed his travel towards the Somali border captured the attention of Kenyan authorities, who arrested him before US embassy and FBI officials questioned the former Army officer.
Accountancy giant KPMG has quit as auditor of two US companies amid an FBI investigation into alleged insider trading involving a former employee.
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The crime spree spanned across a wide swath of Southern California, prompting several police agencies, including the FBI and US Marshall Service, to form a joint investigative task force.
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Can each of us have our private emails hacked by the FBI on the basis of someone issuing a complaint against us?
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"The FBI has told us not to discuss anything, " said airline spokesman John Hotard.
One of Mr Schaeuble's ministerial colleagues, Steffen Kampeter, said Germany needed to co-ordinate action against tax evaders at the federal level, proposing a new agency like the FBI in the US to do so.
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In testimony before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI Director Louis Freeh said in January 1998 that without a key-recovery system, maintaining order would be impossible.
Most recently, the FBI, CIA and the US Immigration Service have proved highly resistant to reform efforts made by the Bush administration in the wake of the September 11 2001 attacks.
Last week FBI Assistant Director John Miller said that most of the 2, 176 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act search warrants approved in 2006 were used against terror suspects inside the US. Three days later, the FBI announced the arrest of the members of an American and Caribbean terror cell that was plotting to bomb JFK International Airport.
Young Jesuit scholastics and priests, whose uptown friends were under observation by the FBI, were embarrassed and asked us to stop.
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He came to the US in March and kept contact with an undercover FBI agent before his 22 April arrest, they said.
It's not the backdoor access that the FBI has been pushing for, but US District Judge William Pauley III has now ruled that it and other law enforcement agencies are entitled to view your Facebook profile if one of your "friends" gives them permission to do so.
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US-1 Gym owner Bert Rodriguez told CNN the FBI was asking questions about Ziad Samir Jarrah.
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Finally, we request a court order from the US Supreme Court to subpoena all the data from the FBI that will support my claims.
The FBI issued the request three weeks after the US Department of Homeland Security released a separate report into the privacy implications of monitoring social media websites.
The US attorney's office released a 76-page FBI affidavit detailing the charges against Mr Blagojevich, which included transcripts of his telephone conversations intercepted by court-authorised wiretaps over several weeks.
The conclusion of our stay in the luggage area was an interview with the FBI. (about a half hour for us).
In a moment of pure comedy from a book that veers between entertainment about the geekiness of it all and the scary extent of unchecked lawlessness on the web, Glenny relates how the US Secret Service was unwittingly investigating a secret agent from the FBI.
Aweys, for his part, is wanted by the FBI in connection with his role in the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
And she showed us an ID and the only thing she had was the ID from the FBI.
In March, the FBI spoke to the former soldier in three voluntary interviews at the US consulate in Istanbul.
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Tappin, the former director of Surrey-based Brooklands International Freight Services and the former president of Kent Golf Society, had previously denied trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles that were to be shipped from the US to Tehran via the Netherlands, claiming he was the victim of an FBI sting.
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Last week the FBI released photos of three men it says were on the grounds of the US consulate in Benghazi when it was attacked last year.
The FBI had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed.
"The FBI is asking anyone with information about the unmanned aircraft or the operator to contact us, " said Special Agent in Charge John Giacalone.
The FBI and other state agencies having such easy access to so much personal data should give us pause.
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