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The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes by Trevor Aaronson by Trevor Aaronson The young woman with long pink hair claimed to be from Washington state. One day during the summer of 2020, she walked into the Chinook Center, a community …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Filed under: Informants, FBI
The Pariah by Murtaza Hussain He Declined the FBI’s Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined. by Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept Aswad Khan didn’t understandwhypeople were congratulating him. On a February morning in 2017, rolling out of bed at his home in an upper-middle class area of …
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Chicago PD Is Spying on Social Media Using Fake Profiles Provided by the FBI by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Public records requests have shed light on a program within the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) whose purpose is to collect information on people by surveilling their social media profiles …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
FBI Gets New Mass Surveillance Tool by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins According to reports in several media outlets, including the Washington Post, the FBI contracted in March 2022 with tech company Babel Street for 5,000 licenses to use Babel X software for searches of broad swaths of social media. …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022
FBI’s ‘Rich Neighborhood’ Breach Practice by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A judge hearing oral arguments in an insurance fraud appeal on April 7, 2022, stopped the proceedings when she discovered a “deeply troubling” item in the record: when serving a search warrant in a rich Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the …
Article • July 1, 2022
Filed under: Police Misconduct, FBI
Louisville Metro Police Indulging in Misconduct Since 2017 Keeps the FBI Busy by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Starting with a sex abuse scandal in 2017, the Louisville Metro Police Department has managed to draw the attention of the feds for a range of misconduct from wrongfully killing …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Search Your Constitution in Vain for the Fourth Amendment—the DOJ Seized It (Stealthily) by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over the past couple of decades, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and its components have been requesting and receiving data from electronic media service providers, utilizing warrants, subpoenas, and National Security …
FBI hiding an unpublished police use-of-force database from FOIA requesters by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman  For years, the FBI has been collecting information from police departments on their use of force. “Lackluster participation” from law enforcement, however, has prevented the agency from publishing public reports or statistics based on …
Article • October 27, 2021
FBI Teaches Law Enforcement How to Turn Your Cell Phone Against You by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A recently revealed FBI report provides detailed instruction to law enforcement on snooping through cell phone data, often without a search warrant, while also delving into similarly warrantless mining of social media …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
FBI Fails to Track Police Use of Force by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The summer of 2020 was a moment marked by extremes—vast populations around the world were quarantined in their homes for months, interrupted by an eruption of millions onto the streets to protest the killing of George …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Details Surface About Firm That Hacked iPhone for the FBI in 2016 by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso It was in 2016 that a shooting in San Bernardino, California, sparked legal action in which the FBI attempted to use the courts to force Apple to enable a vulnerability that …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
FBI Subpoenas Media Outlets for Information on Readers of Stories Criticizing Government by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) recently subpoenaed USA Today seeking information on readers of a story about a botched FBI raid in Florida that killed two agents and wounded three other …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
ACLU Spotlights FBI’s Encryption-Breaking Tool in Freedom of Information Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) has peeled back the curtain of secrecy on the FBI’s undisclosed in-house capability of unlocking encrypted cellphones and other electronic devices. The ACLU had unsuccessfully sought information on …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: FBI
The FBI Polices Itself Like Kids Guarding a Candy Store by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the early 1970s, an armed team entered a Stockholm, Sweden, bank to rescue hostages being held by bank robbers, as well as to, hopefully, arrest the robbers.  To the rescuers’ shock and surprise, …
Article • June 22, 2019
Study Questions the Reliance on Comparison Testimony at Trial by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell  The FBI admitted that its hair-sample analysts were wrong 95 percent of the time when comparing hair samples in approximately 3,000 cases. This included 32 death penalty cases. A 2012 study by the Pennsylvania Innocence …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: FBI
FBI Using Private Ancestry Databases to Zero in on Suspects by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon It has not been long since former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo was identified as the Golden State Killer suspect, a shadowy figure accused of raping and killing his way to infamy, holding a …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
First Circuit: FBI’s Ruse Claiming National Emergency to Obtain Consent to Search Held Unlawful by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a search wherein FBI agents lied about an emergency in order to gain consent to search a suspect’s computers …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
FBI Reviewing Four Incidents of Excessive Force at Mesa, Arizona, PD in Just Four Months by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The FBI is reviewing four incidents of excessive force by Mesa, Arizona, police officers in the span of just four months, some after an “independent” investigation cleared the involved …
Article • March 15, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: junk science, FBI
The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. by Ryan Gabrielson The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics. Studies have begun to raise doubts about the unit’s methods. by Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica At the FBI Laboratory …
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Ninth Circuit Holds Undisclosed Relationship Between Murdered FBI Agent and Presiding Judge in Capital Case Created Intolerable Risk of Judicial Bias, Warranting Habeas Relief by David Reutter by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that an undisclosed connection between an FBI agent and a …
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