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Witness FBI Witness To Be Announced
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FBI v. Fazaga: Supreme Court Examines Interplay of State Secrets Privilege and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Posts · Jan 12, 2022
On November 8, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) v. Fazaga, a case that explores the circumstances in which a federal court may examine classified...
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FBI Headquarters Site Selection Process
Posts · Nov 13, 2023
Identification of Potential Sites On February 8, 2016, the General Services Administration (GSA) submitted a prospectus to Congress for the construction of a new headquarters facility for the Federal...
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Trying to Kill An FBI Agent: Sentence Too Low
Posts · Jan 16, 2020
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) on December 27, 2019, rejected as “shockingly low” a seventeen-year prison term imposed on a terrorist who attempted to kill...
Hearing “Inside the Biden FBI: Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and a Bureau Leadership in Decline”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Apr 2, 2025 · Request transcript
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FBI v. Fazaga: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds That FISA Does Not Displace the State Secrets Privilege
Posts · Sep 1, 2022
On March 4, 2022, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) Section 106(f) does not displace the state secrets privilege in Federal Bureau of...
Witness Joshua Obstfeld
FBI · 1 hearing
Witness Roman Rozhavsky
FBI · 1 hearing
Witness Steve McQueen
FBI · 1 hearing
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Violent Crime Trends, 1990-2021
Resources · Dec 12, 2022
Since the 1930s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program has collected data on reported crimes from federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement...
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Department of Justice’s Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Hate Crimes
Resources · Mar 18, 2021
In 2019, law enforcement agencies reported 7,314 hate crimes involving 8,812 victims and 6,406 known offenders to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Most hate crimes are investigated by local...
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Criminal Contempt of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions
Posts · Jun 5, 2023
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Committee) has been engaged in an oversight dispute with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over an agency document that reportedly...
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security (CLOSED)
house National Intelligence Enterprise Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: FBI Witness To Be Announced
Hearing CI Screening, Vetting, & Watch listing (CLOSED)
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Joshua Obstfeld, FBI
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Access to Criminal History Record Information for Noncriminal Justice Purposes
Resources · Apr 22, 2024
In the interest of allowing states to screen people who might work in professions where they would be responsible for caring for vulnerable people or where public safety concerns are implicated,...
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FISA Section 702 Sunset, Authorization, and Potential Extension
Posts · Apr 17, 2024
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)—as amended by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), FISA Amendments Act of 2017, and National Defense Authorization Act for...
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Are Antifa Members Domestic Terrorists? Background on Antifa and Federal Classification of Their Actions
Resources · Jun 9, 2020
On May 31, 2020, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that the United States will be designating “antifa”—this term is applied to an organization of loosely affiliated individuals who...
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Federal Data on Hate Crimes in the United States
Report · Dec 16, 2025
Reports of crimes where the offenders’ actions appear to be motivated by their bias or animosity toward a particular race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity have...
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
Resources · Dec 17, 2024
Introduction Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978. FISA provides a statutory framework for government agencies to obtain authorization to gather foreign...
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Justice Department’s Role in Cyber Incident Response
Reports · Dec 18, 2020
Criminals and other malicious actors rely on the internet and evolving technology to further their operations. In cyberspace, criminals can compromise financial assets, hacktivists can flood websites...
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U.S. Intelligence Community Establishment Provisions
Resources · Jun 5, 2024
The concept of a unified U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) consisting of integrated component departments and agencies began to take shape after World War II, in part through the establishment of the...
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Federal Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Reports · Oct 27, 2020
Law enforcement agencies’ use of facial recognition technology (FRT), while not a new practice, has received increased attention from policymakers and the public. Some of the concerns raised revolve...