Questions tagged [fbi]
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is the investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice, with its head reporting to the President. Use this tag for questions about the politics of the bureau itself, and not merely for investigations the FBI may be involved with.
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Was the domain "zlibrary-bl.se" actually seized by the US Government's FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) through international law? [closed]
Question: Was the domain "zlibrary-bl.se" actually seized by the US Government?
http://web.archive.org/web/20241109063932/https://zlibrary-bl.se/
The website appears to be poorly formatted ...
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Was there any appeal actually filed in Trump's case against Clinton and the FBI (alleging they conspired against him)?
Back in September 2022, Trump's team filed a lawsuit in Florida against Hillary Clinton and the FBI, but:
Trump filed his sprawling lawsuit in March, naming a wide cast of characters that Trump has ...
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Does the definition of Antisemitism used by the FBI differ in any way from the one used by the State Department?
The FBI apparently has to report how many hate crimes were based on Antisemitism.
On the other hand, the State Department has also adopted a definition of Antisemitism.
Is there any difference between ...
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Did the FBI seize former US president's current passport in the Mar-a-Lago raid? If so, did they return it? If so, when?
After 03:20 in CNN's January 22, 2023 Brown presses GOP House Intelligence chair on Trump documents US Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) says the following:
The concern we all have, is the abuse of ...
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What happened in the Hunter Biden's laptop controversy?
Recently, I've read Donald Trump's latest quote on the story:
So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, ’...
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Has the FBI created a structure or apparatus for school boards to report threats from parents?
Some political controversy has been generated by Merrick Garland's October 4, 2021, memo to the FBI, which directed the agency to "...open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, ...
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Can the FBI or the CIA keep things secret from the President?
Can the FBI or the CIA keep things secret from the President? Or does the FBI and the CIA always have to reveal the whole extent of the truth whenever the President is informed of something? Can they ...
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When can one U.S. agency ask for intelligence or information from another U.S. agency?
When can one U.S. agency ask for intelligence or information from another U.S. agency? Let's say the FBI needs intelligence of information the CIA might have about a certain individual. Can the FBI ...
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What are some mechanisms or laws that encourage the FBI and CIA to share intelligence in the name of national security?
Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, a nonfiction book by
American historian and policy analyst Mark Riebling, explores the
conflict between U.S. domestic law enforcement and foreign
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How could an American president abolish the FBI?
If Biden / Trump / a hypothetical USA president elected in the near-future wanted to abolish the FBI, how could he?
Can the president do this alone or would they need a Senate vote too?
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Why doesn't the FBI crack down on websites allowing cartoon child pornography?
In the United States, visual depictions (such as drawings) of child abuse images is illegal provided they are ruled as obscene. This would make things like lolicon/shotacon (a type of cartoon child ...
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Why isn't there an inquiry into the assassination of Malcolm X, given that there is solid evidence of a conspiracy by the FBI targetting him?
Raymond Wood, a former NYPD undercover officer, in a death-bed confession, admitted to being part of a conspiracy to target Malcolm X. He stated that he was part of a conspiracy by the NYPD to trap ...
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Did the FBI inform the US Capitol Police on the level of possible threat on Jan 6?
It's been reported that following the rioting and break-ins from Trump supporters at the Capitol, both the (acting) chief of the US Capitol Police and the Seargents at Arms of both chambers have ...
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On what time lag is the FBI declassifying counterintelligence investigations?
For a while now, the CIA has been declassifying as much old material as it can, on a lag of several decades, since the information in decades-old documents often no longer compromises sources and ...
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Difference between director and acting director of FBI
If you look at the list of FBI directors, some of them are numbered - first, second, third director etc.
But the majority are not numbered and they are marked as Acting.
What is the difference?
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What are the odds that the FBI/NSA/etc. is actually listening, or has listened, to any of the average American's private communications? [closed]
With 328.2 million people in the US population, I would imagine these government agencies wouldn't actually be dedicating their limited resources to spying on the typical American. Rather, they would ...
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Roughly how many people associated with Antifa ideology have been charged following investigations into terrorist incidents in the US?
According to a 2018 CRS report:
Presumably, the
Bureau would investigate antifa followers suspected of
criminal activity as domestic terrorists, categorizing them as
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Have there been confirmed cases of Unmasking Abuse? [closed]
When the name of a US citizen is incidentally collected by the US Intelligence Community as part of intelligence activities, the name in masked in intelligence reports to protect the person’s identity....
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Why was there such a significant increase in firearms background checks in March 2020?
According to statistics published by the FBI, March 2020 saw the highest ever number of NICS firearms background checks performed, at 3,740,688, an increase of 33% from February. The FBI itself notes ...
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FBI and procedures to prevent unauthorized searches
I have read from an article that members of the FBI took advantage of a program called Section 702, which "granted FBI agents the ability to search a database of electronic intelligence, including ...
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Does the FBI investigate social media accounts (on Twitter, Facebook etc.) for foreign influence?
As it turns out from a related question, the FBI has a Foreign Influence Task Force, which among other things does:
Private sector partnerships: The FBI considers strategic engagement with U.S. ...
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Can the president hire an FBI Agent?
Can the President of the United States hire someone without any credentials to become an FBI agent? Can the director of the FBI do it?
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Does the FBI accept applicants with any job background?
Does the FBI hiring teams allow people with any job background to apply to a position? More specifically, would the FBI allow or not allow someone with a political background to have a job in the ...
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What specific FBI policy/procedure required 29 FBI agents and 17 vehicles sent to arrest Roger Stone?
What specific FBI policy/policies are there that required 29 FBI agents and 17 vehicles (according to Stone's personal account) to be sent for his arrest? Is there any specific policy regarding the ...
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What checks & balances exist on covert operations?
Due to a series of tweets by Boots Riley, I've been reading about COINTELPRO, "a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, ...
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Political distinction between Surveillance and Wiretapping?
In a recent comment Kdog alludes to:
...those guys that think electronic surveillance and wiretapping semantic differences are somehow important.
In the US, is this distinction procedurally ...
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Did someone in the FBI pressure Comey into releasing Hillary news just before the election?
Did Jim Comey make any reference to internal people or persons inside the FBI who told him he had a mandate to release the information to the public about the Hillary Clinton probe?
Does anyone have ...
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Attorney client privilege in the Trump and Clinton investigations
In the wake of the FBI raid on his attorney, President
Trump has said that attorney-client privilege is dead. Undoubtedly that is an exaggeration, but it brings up a fair question:
Has attorney-...
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The Donald Trump Sex Tape Significance [closed]
With all the news about the "alleged" affair Donald J. Trump had with the porn star Stormy Daniels cheating on his wife one has to wonder.....
Disclaimer: Donald Trump strongly denies all ...
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How much control does president have over FBI ? [US]
What kind of authority does POTUS has over FBI? Can POTUS directly order DOJ & FBI to close an investigation? After the Watergate scandal, did Congress pass any laws to make FBI a little bit more ...
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What scope does Title I Fisa have as it pertains to other US citizens not explicitly targeted by the warrant?
Suppose that the FBI obtains a Title I FISA warrant on a John Doe. That is they argue successfully before a FISA judge that there is probable cause to believe that John Doe is a foreign agent. This ...
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Why did the House Intelligence Committee vote against releasing the Democratic memo?
The House Intelligence Committee just voted to release a memo drafted by Chairman Devin Nunes and other Republicans which discusses alleged misconduct by the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation. ...
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Why couldn't the FBI issue a warrant to get Hillary Clinton's emails?
As this article states:
"Cox said the fact that Clinton’s staff -- rather than a State
Department federal records officer -- chose which emails to destroy is
"honestly breathtaking." Her ...
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What are the professional standards for FBI agents? [duplicate]
There have been a lot of stories lately about whether or not the FBI's actions in regards to Trump are proper.
Fox News
NPR
My question is -- what are the relevant professional standards? There ...
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Are American FBI agents not allowed to have personal opinions?
There have been news stories recently about an FBI agent assigned to the Russia probe. Apparently they wire fired from it by Mueller because they had sent messages to another person that were highly ...
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What exactly is "collusion"? What is Robert Mueller expected to prove?
It seems to me that what most people typically mean when they say "Trump colluded with Russia to win the election" is, quite simply, that Trump, or his campaign, knowingly met with some key people ...
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Have any investigators requested the minutes of Trump's Oval Office meeting?
On May 19, the New York Times published a story which said that according to the official White House minutes of President Trump's May 10 Oval Office meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...
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Is Donald Trump under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller?
I've seen conflicting reports about whether Donald Trump is personally (i.e. not his campaign) under investigation.
The Washington Post says: "The move by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to ...
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What is the evidence for the Trump/Russia investigation?
I'm pretty confused about the whole thing. All I've really heard about it is people's insistence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to sway the 2016 presidential election. I'...
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Are personal memos official accounts of events?
This came up after today's James Comey's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
On CNN, after the hearing was finished, they showed a screen that said
Comey: Wrote memos after fearing ...
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What determines which of James Comey's memos were classified?
I was watching James Comey's testimony today to the Senate Intelligence Committee. One matter of discussion was the series of memos he wrote after various meetings and conversations with President ...
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What is the expectation that the US intelligence community must answer questions posed in congressional hearings?
Question: What is the expectation that the US intelligence community must answer questions posed in congressional hearings? What leeway do the US intelligence community leaders have to determine the ...
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When and why did Trump publicly change his attitude towards Comey?
It seemed like Trump's best friend in late October 2016 was James Comey:
"I was not his fan, but I'll tell you what: What he did, he brought back his reputation. He brought it back."
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Why didn't Jeff Sessions or Rod Rosenstein fire James Comey?
I understood that the Director of the FBI reported to the Attorney General.
If the reason to fire Comey was because of reasons unrelated to the Russia investigation, why didn't Jeff Sessions fire ...
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Did US AG Jeff Sessions violate his promise to recuse himself from the Trump/Russia probe?
After it was discovered that Sessions had lied to the Senate during his confirmation hearing about contacts with Russia, he back-filled by saying he'd recuse himself from any involvement with ...
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What process needs to be followed by the President to fire the FBI Director?
So I'm seeing all the news flashes regarding F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump; I'm sure everyone is hearing about this now.
I recall President Trump's campaign aids being under a counter-...
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Have previous presidential campaigns been investigated by the F.B.I for ties to foreign governments?
At the moment it's been confirmed by the director of the F.B.I that Trump and his people are being investigated closely for foreign ties with Russia, etc. (see below).
F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’...
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Why is the FBI making such a big deal out Hillary Clinton's private email server?
I've read many articles on Hillary's email issue. To me, it seems like she was just a bit careless and she has no bad intentions, and the FBI knows that. So why is it that the FBI is so persistent on ...
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Why did the FBI director recommend that Hillary Clinton not be charged?
Today, FBI Director James Comey gave a statement describing the various ways in which Hillary Clinton's handling of classified email was insecure.
He spends a few minutes making it clear that any ...
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Apple-FBI encryption dispute
Recently, the FBI issued a court order based on the All Writs Act for Apple to disable certain security features on one specific iPhone by installing a version of iOS in the RAM, allowing the FBI to ...
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