A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn’t add up to Ivins’ mailing deadly spores in fall 2001. “Impossible,” said Dr. Henry S. Heine of a scenario in which Ivins, another civilian microbiologist working for the [...]

The Justice Department’s inspector general is worried about the rising costs and delays of the FBI’s projected nearly half billion dollar project to modernize its case management system. The IG’s concerns about the progress of the Sentinel project – now estimated to cost more than $450 million and to be completed in 2011 – follow a recent [...]

In 1776, our founding fathers made a bold pronouncement: that all men are created equal, that we were endowed with inalienable rights, and, among these were Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Enshrined in our Constitution were more bold pronouncements: that no man could be deprived of his rights, that no man [is] above the [...]

Is this the face of justice in America, I ask myself. Not my America, I retort, not the America of Ann Arbor, Michigan with its ivory towers, nor the America of Brooklyn, New York where I grew up, the child of Pakistani immigrants, benefiting from the best public schools, taught to keep an open mind, [...]

Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds to FBI Closing Anthrax Case The FBI’s report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon … which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule.  The National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial [...]

The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or simply asking for them. The Justice Department Inspector General’s internal audit, released Wednesday, harshly criticized how the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Communications Analysis Unit — a [...]

Would you pay bribes to get a piece of a $15 million contract to equip the presidential guard of an African country? According to the Justice Department, almost two dozen executives said yes, put it in writing and wrote checks — without realizing that the African officials getting the bribes were actually undercover F.B.I. agents. [...]

The former leader of the Spanish Communist Party is threatening to take the FBI to court after it used his photograph to compose its latest mugshot of Osama bin Laden. “I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo to compose a picture of a terrorist,” said Gaspar Llamazares, now the parliamentary spokesman for the [...]

Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street all rolled into one. You don’t have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall Street. It wire-tapped its way into a seedy world of secret tips, kickbacks and disposable, pre-paid mobile phones. A network including staff of [...]

Raj Rajaratnam (pictured right), is a one of America’s wealthiest men. He is a portfolio manager for Galleon Group, a hedge fund with up to $7 billion in assets. He stands accused of conspiring to use insider information while trading securities in publicly traded companies. Google Inc., the highly successful search engine company is one [...]