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Smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate chamber as supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers inside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.

Former FBI agent: ‘Major intelligence failure’ of US Capitol breach requires 9/11-style commission

Trump administration

“There is going to have to be a reconstruction of events and find out who dropped the ball and why,” said legal and security analyst Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent.

Members of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hold stencils made by French street artist C215 representing portraits of emprisonned Turkish journalists,

FBI is dismantling its war crimes unit

Police allow someone to pass outside the Time Warner Center

Officials investigating bombs sent to top Democrats and CNN as election looms

Conflict
President Donald Trump looks to his right while walking up the stairs to Air Force One with two Air Force officials soluting in the foreground.

Trump denies asking FBI to drop Flynn probe as obstruction questions loom

Justice

Cybercrime explored: Journalist documents DarkMarket

Environment

When a rape isn’t a rape: FBI statistics ignore many cities’ rapes

Global Politics

Because of differences in definitions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime statistics intentionally ignore the rapes reported in many cities. Chicago reported 1400 rapes last year, but none were listed in FBI reports.

Documentary questions whether FBI ID’d right suspect in anthrax attack

Global Politics

A new documentary from PBS Frontline looks at the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks and asks whether they found the perpetrator.

FBI Director James Comey takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the FBI field office in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 18, 2014.

How the FBI used ‘invalid, grossly exaggerated testimony’ for decades

Justice

According to FBI forensic examiners, a hair can place a defendant at a crime scene with almost the same accuracy as we expect from fingerprints. But now the agency admits that was wrong — and has been during the decades of cases in which hair matching evidence was used.

Andrew Luger, US Attorney for Minnesota, speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis on April 20, 2015. FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard Thornton stands at left.

Six Somali Americans are caught attempting to join ISIS ‘by any means possible’

Justice

Six Somali Americans from Minneapolis have been arrested and charged with terrorism for planning to join forces ISIS, marking just the latest instance of jihadi recruitment among Minnesota’s large Somali population.

Veto supporters rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the same day President Barack Obama vetoed a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Keystone XL opponents find the FBI at their doors

Environment

Some activists who took part in environmental protests against the Keystone XL pipeline and other projects have attracted the attention of the FBI. They and their lawyers say the government is simply following a decades-old playbook of intimidation.