Last week, a federal judge in Detroit dismissed the Insane Clown Posse's lawsuit against the FBI. The lawsuit, filed by the clown rap duo and the ACLU in January, claimed the FBI's 2011 categorization of the group as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang" caused "significant harm" to ICP's fans.
The U.S. Justice Department, busy with many, many other much more important things, has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by members of the Insane Clown Posse that objects to the FBI's 2011 classification of the group of Faygo-swillers as a "violent gang." The feds simply do not have time for this shit.
The FBI knows what LMAO means. According to an internal manual released today under the Freedom of Information Act to the open-records website MuckRock, the bureau also knows what ANFAWFOS, EOTWAWKI, and IITYWTMWYBMAD stand for. So beware: The feds have cracked Twitter slang. Or think they have.
We know you don't blaze up. But you've got this friend who does, and he seriously wonders whether that endangers his chances to code and hack for the top federal law enforcement bureau. You know what? Tell your friend the boss cop says it's cool.
Former FBI agent and current indicted congressman Rep. Michael Grimm left the bureau on such bad terms that the FBI ended up barring him from the building in the most hilarious way.
Four Americans, all of them Muslims, are suing the FBI, charging that the agency unfairly placed them on its "No-Fly List," and tried to use that as leverage to turn them into informers.
Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference in New York on Tuesday. He says a report that he spied on New York Mafia figures for the FBI in the 1980s is old news. Image via Seth Wenig/AP.
Eric Holder "told me that he will leave office sometime this year," Jeffrey Toobin writes in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Holder, the first African-American attorney general in U.S. history and a favorite punching-bag of conservatives, has long been rumored to be on his way out at the Justice Department.
In other news, the attorney general's regular video address this week was on sentencing reform.
Dennis "Slick" Lilly put on a prison guard's uniform and walked out of jail in December 1986, and that's the last the cops ever saw him alive. Despite being on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Criminals, Lilly was so slick that he disappeared into the life of a law-abiding small businessman in a woodsy town near Seattle.
When the FBI Press Office uses Twitter, it sends a half-dozen tweets in one second, and then there's nothing for a day or three.
On Wednesday, the Insane Clown Posse filed its lawsuit—which they announced last fall— against the FBI, who the clown duo says has caused "significant harm" to its fans, known as Juggalos, by classifying them as a "a loosely-organized hybrid gang."
Long before Edward Snowden, there were the eight burglars who, in the spring of 1971, stole an entire office's worth of secret documents in an attempt to take down J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Now, nearly 43 years later, five of them have come forward.
Operational security, ladies and gentlemen. We have secrets, and we need to keep them! We also need to log them all. Now... where do I register this unredacted treatise on how to interrogate an Arab?
The FBI's been able to do it for years, but now any Joe Schmoe high school kid can figure out how to monitor people through their computer cameras without triggering the activation light.
A former FBI agent has reached a plea deal with the U.S. government for leaking classified information about a terrorist plot to the Associated Press. Donald John Sachtleben will get three years and seven months in prison for the leak, but that's just the beginning of his legal troubles.
So here’s a mystery. In response to a recent Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided Gawker with a curious case file, dated May 2002, indicating the bureau’s acquisition of three photos of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. The photos, which remain classified, were “recovered from a…
The FBI has admitted to keeping files on working-class poet and middle-aged postal worker Charles Bukowski, because he wrote half-fiction columns for the Los Angeles underground newspaper Open City. The Bureau was particularly fascinated by the story of a drunken lady who liberated $5,000 worth of pet birds.
William T. Vollman, pictured left, is not the Unabomber. He's a National Book-Award winning novelist, and a certified weirdo, but he's not the Unabomber. Or, for that matter, the Anthrax mailer. And yet the FBI thought he might be.
