By Allan Lengel The FBI, ATF and D.C. police have raised the reward from $100,000 to $500,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington the night of Jan. 5, 2021, one day before the…
By Allan Lengel The FBI reported more than 7,000 hate crimes in the U.S. in 2021, but that was far from the real story. With fewer police departments reporting those crimes, the numbers are woefully inaccurate. USA Today reports that there are more than 18,000 police departments in the nation, but only 65 percent reported…
By Allan Lengel Some worried that rapid bang sounds heard at FBI headquarters Tuesday night was gunfire. But the FBI insisted that the sounds heard from 8:30 p.m. until around 3 a.m. Wednesday were far more benign, WUSA reports. “The FBI is aware of reports of loud noises coming from mechanical piping within the J….
By Allan Lengel If you’re looking for a good show to stream, look no further than Showtime’s “City on a Hill,” starring Kevin Bacon as a cocky Boston FBI agent, Jackie Rohr, in the early 1990s. Now in the third season, the New York Times says the show “wraps race, crime, city government and family…
By Allan Lengel Stories of the Steele Dossier aren’t vanishing quite yet. Senior FBI analyst Brian Auten testified Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., that the FBI, shortly before the 2016 election, offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the allegations in his dossier involving Donald Trump, CNN reports….
By Allan Lengel A whistleblower is alleging that an internal review found that 665 FBI personnel resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes in the past two decades, the Associated Press reports. The whistleblower told Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office that the review was triggered by an Associated Press investigation into sexual misconduct allegations involving at…
