FBI to Analyze Recovered Remnants of Chinese Balloon Shot Down off South Carolina Coast
The FBI will analyze the remnants of the Chinese balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
The FBI will analyze the remnants of the Chinese balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
The photos were so grisly and outrageous that many people doubted they were real.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Louis Hughes, an FBI agent from 1961 to 1986, died last week at this home in Virginia Beach. He was 77. According to an obituary on the Altmeyer Funeral Homes website, Hughes, since 2003, survived amputations, surgeries, and numerous hospitalizations. “Through it all, his quiet strength of will and pleasant…
By Spencer S. Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted Mellnik The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. An FBI special agent was testifying in the government’s high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center. Frederic Whitehurst, a…
By Spencer S. Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people nationwide, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled. Officials started reviewing the cases in the…
By Mike Wiser, PBS FRONTLINE, Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago. Shortly after Ivins committed…