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FBI Employee Admits Giving Information To China
A longtime FBI employee with top-secret clearances pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of China and providing officials in that country with sensitive information, prosecutors announced Monday.
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Congress Releases Long-Classified '28 Pages' On Alleged Saudi Ties To Sept. 11 Attack
A long-classified document, detailing suspected connections between Saudi Arabia and the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 2001 attacks, was released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee after being redacted by U.S. intelligence.
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'I Am Fed Up With This Evil': How An American Went From Ivy League Student To Disillusioned ISIS Fighter
In late October 2014, the FBI received an unusual email from a young man named Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya.
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Video Of Orlando Attack Shows Shooter Firing At Those Already Wounded
Surveillance footage from inside the Orlando club the night of the rampage shows Omar Mateen firing at people, stopping and then shooting again those who were already wounded, said officials who have viewed the evidence.
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Orlando Gunman Exchanged Text Messages With Wife, Searched Facebook During Standoff
The gunman who carried out a shooting rampage in Orlando, Florida, Sunday exchanged text messages with his wife on the day of the attack, according to a U.S. law enforcement official, communications that are being looked at as part of a sprawling investigation scrutinizing the gunman as well as his digital footprint.
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FBI Had Closely Scrutinized The Orlando Shooter Before Dropping Investigation
Omar Mateen had boasted to co-workers about his connections to al-Qaeda and dying as a martyr.
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'He Wasn't Stable, He Beat Me': Ex-Wife Of Suspected Orlando Gunman
"He seemed like a normal human being," she said, adding that he wasn't very religious and worked out at the gym often. She said in the few months they were married he gave no signs of having fallen under the sway of radical Islam. She said he owned a small-caliber handgun and worked as a guard at a nearby facility for juvenile delinquents.
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50 Killed In Florida Nightclub, Worst Mass Shooting In US History
A gunman opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more in a rampage that turned into a deadly hostage situation.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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FBI Yet to Find Links to Foreign Terrorists on San Bernardino iPhone
Investigators knew all along that finding important clues on the phone, which was a work phone owned by San Bernardino County, was a long shot.
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How Vulnerable Is The United States To A Brussels-Like Attack?
The apparently coordinated bombings that killed more than 30 people in Belgium are unlikely to be duplicated in the United States, which is separated by an ocean from Islamic extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq and has seen far fewer of its people traveling there, former intelligence and counterterrorism officials said.
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He's The Longest-Held Hostage In US History. And Officials Can't Agree On Where He Is.
Nine years after former FBI agent Robert Levinson went missing on the Iranian island of Kish, US officials say there is disagreement over his whereabouts.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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'Eyewash': How The CIA Deceives Its Own Workforce About Operation
The other day, I asked a group of special forces officers from Colombia's National Police what they thought of all the recent reports by journalists who have camped out with FARC rebels as the group nears a peace deal with the government.
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San Bernardino Attacker Sought Guns From Friend To Avoid Arousing Suspicion, Official Says
One of the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., last week, received the assault rifles used in the massacre from a friend to avoid arousing suspicion by purchasing them himself, a law enforcement official said Friday.
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FBI Employee Admits Giving Information To China
A longtime FBI employee with top-secret clearances pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of China and providing officials in that country with sensitive information, prosecutors announced Monday.
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Congress Releases Long-Classified '28 Pages' On Alleged Saudi Ties To Sept. 11 Attack
A long-classified document, detailing suspected connections between Saudi Arabia and the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 2001 attacks, was released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee after being redacted by U.S. intelligence.
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'I Am Fed Up With This Evil': How An American Went From Ivy League Student To Disillusioned ISIS Fighter
In late October 2014, the FBI received an unusual email from a young man named Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya.
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Video Of Orlando Attack Shows Shooter Firing At Those Already Wounded
Surveillance footage from inside the Orlando club the night of the rampage shows Omar Mateen firing at people, stopping and then shooting again those who were already wounded, said officials who have viewed the evidence.
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Orlando Gunman Exchanged Text Messages With Wife, Searched Facebook During Standoff
The gunman who carried out a shooting rampage in Orlando, Florida, Sunday exchanged text messages with his wife on the day of the attack, according to a U.S. law enforcement official, communications that are being looked at as part of a sprawling investigation scrutinizing the gunman as well as his digital footprint.
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FBI Had Closely Scrutinized The Orlando Shooter Before Dropping Investigation
Omar Mateen had boasted to co-workers about his connections to al-Qaeda and dying as a martyr.
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'He Wasn't Stable, He Beat Me': Ex-Wife Of Suspected Orlando Gunman
"He seemed like a normal human being," she said, adding that he wasn't very religious and worked out at the gym often. She said in the few months they were married he gave no signs of having fallen under the sway of radical Islam. She said he owned a small-caliber handgun and worked as a guard at a nearby facility for juvenile delinquents.
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50 Killed In Florida Nightclub, Worst Mass Shooting In US History
A gunman opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more in a rampage that turned into a deadly hostage situation.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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FBI Yet to Find Links to Foreign Terrorists on San Bernardino iPhone
Investigators knew all along that finding important clues on the phone, which was a work phone owned by San Bernardino County, was a long shot.
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How Vulnerable Is The United States To A Brussels-Like Attack?
The apparently coordinated bombings that killed more than 30 people in Belgium are unlikely to be duplicated in the United States, which is separated by an ocean from Islamic extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq and has seen far fewer of its people traveling there, former intelligence and counterterrorism officials said.
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He's The Longest-Held Hostage In US History. And Officials Can't Agree On Where He Is.
Nine years after former FBI agent Robert Levinson went missing on the Iranian island of Kish, US officials say there is disagreement over his whereabouts.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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'Eyewash': How The CIA Deceives Its Own Workforce About Operation
The other day, I asked a group of special forces officers from Colombia's National Police what they thought of all the recent reports by journalists who have camped out with FARC rebels as the group nears a peace deal with the government.
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San Bernardino Attacker Sought Guns From Friend To Avoid Arousing Suspicion, Official Says
One of the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., last week, received the assault rifles used in the massacre from a friend to avoid arousing suspicion by purchasing them himself, a law enforcement official said Friday.
