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FBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:33 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night.

Gov't presses ahead on another leak case

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:02 -0400

WASHINGTON - In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory - by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information.

Bulger prosecutors object to giving informant ID

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:43:25 -0400

BOSTON - Prosecutors in the trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger objected Monday to a request to provide the name of a confidential informant who Bulger's lawyers hope can help undermine the credibility of two key government witnesses.

Somali reaction to al-Shabab sentences mixed

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:33:49 -0400

MINNEAPOLIS - Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group al-Shabab have kindled a mix of outrage, confusion and relief among members of Minnesota's large Somali community.

Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:11:05 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.

Even after Cold War, US-Russia spy game continues

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:38:55 -0400

WASHINGTON - The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes can't prevent capture.

Ex-Pa. police chief's corruption sentence delayed

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:11:31 -0400

PITTSBURGH - The federal sentencing of a former southwestern Pennsylvania police chief who pleaded guilty to extortion charges was delayed indefinitely Thursday after the defense questioned whether the FBI paid an informant so much money that he didn't legally qualify to secretly tape conversations with the defendant.

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:26 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak.

NC man pleads to buying gun for terrorist jihad

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:29:25 -0400

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina - A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

NC man pleads to buying gun for terrorist jihad

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:50:20 -0400

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina - A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

Man sentenced in plot against terror witnesses

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:37 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families.

Sentencings approach in Somali terror case

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:44:21 -0400

MINNEAPOLIS - Nine people convicted in a government investigation of terror recruitment and financing for an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia are to be sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

Tunisian man denies NY terror cell plot claims

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:05:50 -0400

NEW YORK - A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terrorism cell for international acts of terror such as poisoning a water system with bacteria, authorities said Thursday.

Boston chief: Wasn't told FBI got Tsarnaev warning

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:23:45 -0400

WASHINGTON - The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston's police commissioner told Congress on Thursday.

Woman who ran secret prison bypassed as top spy

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:44:16 -0400

WASHINGTON - One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job.

Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:35:55 -0400

FORT MEADE, Maryland - Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website.

Pentagon report: NKorea moving toward nuke missile

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:33:18 -0400

WASHINGTON - North Korea "will move closer" to its announced goal of being able to strike the U.S. with a nuclear-armed missile if it keeps investing in tests of nuclear and missile technology, the Pentagon said Thursday in a report to Congress.

NJ trooper's killer named a most wanted terrorist

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:29:37 -0400

NEWARK, New Jersey - The reward for the capture and return of a fugitive member of a black militant group convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper was doubled to $2 million on Thursday, the 40th anniversary of the bloody gunbattle.

Information sharing before bombings under review

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:21:21 -0400

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Tuesday his counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack.

Karzai: US gives funds to national security team

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:20:22 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the U.S. government for the past 10 years.

Mother of bomb suspects insists sons are innocent

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:47:07 -0400

BOSTON - The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she's no terrorist.

Fight against terror takes pals to the White House

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:56:06 -0400

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama had gone to his residence after a difficult week when an urgent email brought him rushing back to the Oval Office. The suspect in the Boston bombings had been apprehended.

Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:29:38 -0400

WASHINGTON - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

Ex-CIA boss David Petraeus to be NY college prof

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:52:29 -0400

NEW YORK - Ex-CIA director David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs) is replacing one kind of intelligence work with another.

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:59:49 -0400

WASHINGTON - In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.