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Experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations of the United States have organised a full special training course on forensic interviewing of child and adolescent victims and witnesses for Thai police, social workers and NGOs. - Pornprom Satrabhaya
An indictment was returned July 21 charging Ikaika Erik Kang, 34, an Army sergeant first class stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham , a designated foreign terrorist organization. Kang was previously arrested on July 8, and ordered detained pending further proceedings.
This screen grab provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a hidden website that has been seized as part of a law enforcement operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and European law enforcement agencies acting through Europol. On Thursday, July 20, 2017, authorities announced that two of the world's most notorious "darknet" marketplaces, AlphaBay and Hansa, have been knocked out in a one-two punch that officials say yielded a trove of new intelligence about drugs and weapons merchants that operate from hidden corners of the internet.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in an exclusive interview with Fox News that aired Wednesday night, stood by his recommendation that President Trump fire then-FBI Director James Comey and his hiring of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the Bureau's investigation into Russian activities during last year's election. "I've testified several times about this and yes, I do," Rosenstein told "The Story with Martha MacCallum" when asked if he stood by his now-famous memo recommending Comey's dismissal.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data to communications firms, a ruling that dealt a blow to privacy advocates. A unanimous three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with a lower court ruling in finding that rules permitting the FBI to send national security letters under gag orders are appropriate and do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections.
CHRISTOPHER WRAY acquitted himself well during his hearing before the Senate judiciary committee on July 12th. At times slightly awkward, the performance demanded fully four and a half hours.
Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump election campaign is a "witch hunt" and promising not to cave to any pressure from a White House that has challenged boundaries with the nation's top law enforcement agency. Christopher Wray, the former high-ranking Justice Department official whom Trump nominated last month, told senators at his confirmation hearing that he would never let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission.
FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would protect the bureau's independence and resist pressure from the White House. FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would protect the bureau's independence and resist pressure from the White House.
To save his presidency from ending in epic disaster, save the nation from a constitutional crisis, and defend America from warfare against democracy waged by Russia, President Trump needs to tell the nation the whole truth about everything he knows regarding the Putingate scandal. Paul Ryan Hispanic caucus member challenges Kelly on 'Dreamers' Budowsky: What Trump must confess House passes bill to curb human trafficking MORE Lawmakers propose .1B NIH funding boost Trump: I'll be 'very angry' if Senate doesn't pass ObamaCare repeal bill MORE should meet alone with the president, close the door, and speak the truth about what Trump must do to purge his presidency of the poison that is caused by this sordid affair.
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The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have sent a warning to operators of the nation's power plants - nuclear and otherwise - that hackers are targeting such facilities, following a series of hacks that have targeted that critical sector since May. Administration officials tell ABC News the hacks targeted corporate computers of a number of companies that run nuclear power plants, including the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation in Kansas. Wolf Creek declined to comment on security issues but emphasized that there had been no "operational impact" on its facility.
This undated image from surveillance video released by the FBI shows the suspect known as the AK-47 Bandit. Authorities say a Montana man accused of shooting at a Kansas state trooper is a bank robber dubbed "the AK-47 bandit" by the FBI.
Former law enforcement officials say Russian organised crime has been a concern for at least a couple of decades, but Moscow's lack of cooperation has complicated efforts to apprehend suspects The US government has long warned Russian organised crime posed a threat to democratic institutions, including "criminally linked oligarchs" who might collude with the Russian government to undermine business competition. An ongoing special counsel investigation is drawing attention to Russian efforts to meddle in democratic processes, the type of skullduggery that in the past has relied on hired hackers and outside criminals.
The U.S. government has long warned that Russian organized crime posed a threat to democratic institutions, including "criminally linked oligarchs" who might collude with the Russian government to undermine business competition. is drawing attention to Russian efforts to meddle in democratic processes, the type of skullduggery that in the past has relied on hired hackers and outside criminals.
When the Coast Guard found Lewis Bennett on a life raft between Florida and the Bahamas, he told rescuers that about three hours earlier he had been asleep inside the cabin of the catamaran he shared with his new bride, Isabella Hellmann, and was jolted awake when the craft hit something. He said he went up top and found Hellmann gone.
In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren't being made with a large pool of potential family members.
The U.S government warned industrial firms this week about a hacking campaign targeting the nuclear and energy sectors, the latest event to highlight the power industry's vulnerability to cyberattacks. Since at least May, hackers used tainted "phishing" emails to "harvest credentials" so they could gain access to networks of their targets, according to a joint report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hidden in the usual holiday weekend news dump was the New York Times admission that it had misstated facts. In stories since January and as recently as Monday, the Times has incorrectly reported intelligence agencies' determination that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Each week, GoLocalProv will publish a chapter of the book Wired: The Shocking True Story of Political Corruption and the FBI Informant Who Risked Everything to Expose It, by Paul Caranci. The book details how Caranci gambled his thirty-year political career, his reputation, and his family's safety in his quest to restore good, honest government to a community that needed it most by going undercover with the FBI for 17 months to exposed corruption.
A missing 13-year-old North Texas girl who was reported abducted and a man have both been found dead inside a Dallas home, authorities said Sunday. Shavon Randle had been missing for several days and was identified as one of two people dead inside the house in Dallas' Oak Cliff area, Eric Jackson , special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI, said.