• WATCH: FBI chief makes fresh pitch for spy program renewal, says it'd be 'devastating' if it lapsed

    WATCH: FBI chief makes fresh pitch for spy program renewal, says it'd be 'devastating' if it lapsed

    Dec 05, 2023 11:05 PM EDT

    ... more limited requirement, mandating a court order for when the FBI wants to conduct queries on Americans to find evidence of a crime but not for when the FBI is searching the intelligence database for foreign intelligence information. Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who said he had not yet ...

  • Trump indicted on federal charges in classified documents investigation

    Trump indicted on federal charges in classified documents investigation

    Jun 09, 2023 01:00 AM EDT

    ... moments, Stephanie, since summer of last year, starting with the fact that the former president himself was the person that announced that the FBI was searching his home, was searching his Mar a Lago home for these classified documents. We learned that first from the former president and all along ...

  • In Obama's final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits

    In Obama's final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits

    Mar 14, 2017 02:08 PM EDT

    ... how much the government paid to do it. Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon for $4.8 million. The three departments accounted for more than ...

  • Why Obama's last-minute pardons probably won't include Manning, Bergdahl or Snowden

    Why Obama's last-minute pardons probably won't include Manning, Bergdahl or Snowden

    Jan 05, 2017 07:41 PM EDT

    ... unit and faces desertion and misbehavior charges. Bergdahl was captured and held by the Taliban and its allies for five years. Two soldiers who went searching were seriously wounded. Obama exchanged Bergdahl in 2014 for five Taliban prisoners. Because of his military involvement, both the Justice Department and Defense Department ...

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    Supreme Court may reconsider warrantless cellphone searches

    Jan 17, 2014 02:50 PM EDT

    ... publicized ones that challenge the massive collection without warrants of telephone records by the National Security Agency. Though the details and scale are far different - searching a single phone for evidence that could send someone to jail versus gathering huge amounts of data, almost all of which will never be ...

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    Details Emerge on Alleged Gunman in Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting

    Aug 06, 2012 10:17 PM EDT

    ... just weeks after the mass murders in Aurora, Colorado, the president called for -- quote -- "soul searching" about gun violence, but again stopped short of calling for new laws. Law enforcement officials in Wisconsin said the gun used in yesterday's shooting had been purchased legally.   And for more on this ...

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    Supreme Court Upholds Inmate Strip Searches Regardless of Charges

    Apr 02, 2012 10:48 PM EDT

    ... bombing. MARGARET WARNER: Now, what about -- Justice Breyer wrote the dissent for four of the justices. MARCIA COYLE: Yes, he did. He was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan. And Justice Breyer felt that there just wasn't enough evidence here to justify strip-searching people who committed minor ...

  • Supreme Court makes ruling strengthening a defendant's right to cross-examine witnesses

    Supreme Court makes ruling strengthening a defendant's right to cross-examine witnesses

    Jan 20, 2022 09:29 PM EDT

    ... 9-millimeter weapon. But without Morris on the witness stand, the judge should not have allowed jurors to see his statement, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court, invoking the constitutional provision that gives defendants the right to confront their accusers. "For Confrontation Clause purposes, it was not for the ...

  • Court upholds federal gun ban against domestic violence offenders

    Court upholds federal gun ban against domestic violence offenders

    Jun 27, 2016 06:28 PM EDT

    ... mentioned throwing a plate in the heat of an argument, or slamming a door. The case involved two Maine men who said their guilty pleas for hitting their partners should not disqualify them from gun ownership. Writing for herself and five other justices, Justice Elena Kagan said that Congress enacted ...

  • AP: NSA weighed ending phone program before Snowden leak

    AP: NSA weighed ending phone program before Snowden leak

    Mar 30, 2015 03:06 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice, current and former intelligence officials say, because some officials believed the costs outweighed the meager counterterrorism benefits.