The FBI Special Agent in charge of the investigation, Peter Ahearn ( At the time head of the FBI's Buffalo Field Office ), stated that there was no specific event triggering the arrests, which followed four to eight months of investigations.

Walsh stated in America's Most Wanted that FBI's evidence technicians examined the letter and believed it was authentic.

Tressel later stated that he lied about the violations because he didn't want to jeopardize the FBI's investigation against Rife and also feared for his players ' safety.

It was the second major " wanted " list following the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Although Whitehurst described the FBI's sloppy investigation of the bombing site and its handling of other key evidence, he was unable to point to any direct evidence that he knew to be contaminated.

By June 1973, an apparatus that would become the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force ( JTTF ) was issuing near daily briefings on Shakur's status and the allegations against her.

Shakur and others claim that she was targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO as a result of her involvement with these organizations.

" The writer and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Curt Gentry has noted that a similar story about Hall was planted in the media through the FBI's secret COINTELPRO campaign of disruption and disinformation against radical opposition groups.

On January 17, 2002 the FBI published the first Most Wanted Terrorists Seeking Information list ( now known as the FBI's " Seeking Information-War on Terrorism " list ), in order to profile the five wanted terrorists about whom very little was known, but who were suspected of plotting additional terrorist attacks in martyrdom operations.

It was based on the FBI's September 24, 2007, crime statistics report which looked at 378 municipal areas with at least 75, 000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft.

He flew to Mississippi just before the first anniversary of the disappearance, which was officially regarded as a " kidnapping " to justify the FBI's involvement.

Between the years of 1987 – 1990 after a three-year field study by the FBI's Firearm's Training Unit ; In 1990 the use of Oleoresin Capsicum was first issued and used by the FBI as the first official law enforcement agency.

In 1991, O ' Neill received an important promotion and was moved to the FBI's Chicago field office where he was assistant special agent in charge.

Also in 1997, he moved to the FBI's New York office, where he was one of the agents in charge of counter-terrorism and national security.

However, turf wars and dislike of O ' Neill by some superiors in Washington first meant that the FBI's New York office was left out of the investigation, and later that O ' Neill was left behind when other New York – based agents were sent to the region to pick up leads.

After being passed over for multiple promotions, O ' Neill was pleased to be assigned as commander of the FBI's investigation into the USS Cole bombing in October 2000.

The head of the FBI's Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Program at the time of the 1991 study, Special Agent Thomas W. W. Ward, was fired by the FBI and was sentenced to two months in prison for receiving payments from a peppergas manufacturer while conducting and authoring the FBI study that eventually approved pepper spray for FBI use.

The FBI's strategy was captured in a 1968 memo: " Consider the use of cartoons, photographs, and anonymous letters which will have the effect of ridiculing the New Left.

In 1985, Hanssen was again transferred to the FBI's field office in New York, where he continued to work in counter-intelligence against the Soviets.

However, FBI officials believed him when he told them that he was merely demonstrating flaws in the FBI's security system.

During the same time period, Hanssen would go onto the FBI's internal computer case record and search to see if he was under investigation.

The only pistol to meet the FBI's standards was Springfield Armory's 1911 pistol.

Abscam ( sometimes ABSCAM ) was a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) sting operation run from the FBI's Hauppauge, Long Island, office in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Pitts offered his services to the Soviets in 1987 while he was assigned to the FBI's New York office where he was assigned to hunt and recruit KGB officers.

During a national speaking tour, Howard had criticized the FBI's failure to thoroughly investigate the racially motivated murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till.

* August 2005: EPIC and a coalition of open government organizations filed an amicus brief in Gonzales v. Doe, a lawsuit concerning the FBI's authority to issue national security letters without judicial approval and under a permanent gag order that bans the recipient from telling anyone about the demand.

As the Panther leadership across the country began to be decimated by the impact of the FBI's COINTELPRO, Hampton's prominence in the national hierarchy

Realizing that the FBI's tactics aren't working, Bonham strikes out on his own and the search quickly becomes a personal battle between teacher and student, finally culminating in an intense knife fight among the waterfalls of a national forest.

The program expanded to other FBI Field Offices, and in 1998 the FBI assigned national program responsibility for InfraGard to the former National Infrastructure Protection Center ( NIPC ) directed by RADM James B. Plehal USNR and to the FBI's Cyber Division in 2003.

The NSB was formed by the unification of the FBI's various national security and intelligence gathering units.

The letter states ( as quoted )-" In conclusion, the report fairly reflects the FBI's belief that this technique has limited applicability and usefulness to FBI investigative and personnel security matters.

Van Huizen was listed in the FBI's report entitled Project Megiddo as a more moderate militia leader, " A number of militia leaders, such as Lynn Van Huizen of the Michigan Militia Corps-Wolverines, have gone to some effort to actively rid their ranks of radical members who are inclined to carry out acts of violence and / or terrorism.

During the FBI's COINTELPRO operations, there was widespread surveillance abuse which targeted political dissidents, primarily people from the political left and civil rights movement.

It is a history of the FBI's COINTELPRO efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

Gray testified that before turning over the files to Dean, he had been advised by the FBI's own legal counsel that he was required by law to comply with Dean's order.

Leading forms of bias cited in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting ( UCR ) Program, based on law enforcement agency filings are: anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-white, anti-homosexual, and anti-Hispanic bias in that order in both 2004 and 2005.

The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, former President Bush released to the public this initial list on October 10, 2001 of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists.

Hoover also helped to expand the FBI's recruitment and create the FBI Laboratory, a division established in 1932 to examine evidence found by the FBI.

The report also criticized what it characterized as the FBI's reluctance to thoroughly investigate the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.

Most biographers consider the story of Mafia blackmail to be unlikely in light of the FBI's investigations of the Mafia.

The FBI ended up treating Mihdhar as an intelligence case, which meant that the FBI's criminal investigators could not work on the case, due to the barrier separating intelligence and criminal case operations.

Neither the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network nor the FBI's Financial Review Group, which have access to credit card and other private financial records, were notified about Mihdhar prior to September 11.

* 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Two of the passengers had been on the FBI's terrorist-alert list: Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.

Before the attacks, FBI agent Robert Wright, Jr. had written vigorous criticisms of FBI's alleged incompetence in investigating terrorists residing within the United States.

The title established a fund for counter-terrorist activities and increased funding for the FBI's Technical Support Center.

Lott's data came from the FBI's crime statistics from all 3, 054 US counties.

In 2001, the FBI's representative in Tokyo arranged for Tadamasa Goto, the head of the group Goto-gumi, to receive a liver transplant in the United States, in return for information of Yamaguchi-gumi operations in the US.

In 2006, the Memphis metropolitan area ranked number one in violent crimes for major cities around the U. S according to the FBI's annual crime rankings, whereas it had ranked second in 2005.

Haldeman to have the CIA block the FBI's investigation into the source of the funding for the burglary.