Enemies Within: AP reporters versus the state
Jared Malsin reviews Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman’s book Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America Continue Reading →
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Teaching FBI Agents Bias
Nora Connor: For a time after 9/11, the FBI seemed to stand out among the many government agencies with a hand in the intelligence/counterterrorism game. FBI agents were among the most knowledgeable on Islamic extremism worldwide; FBI agents made important discoveries and arrests in the immediate aftermath of 9/11; FBI agents spoke up forcefully against Bush administration/CIA-approved torture techniques. Like any massive bureaucracy, though, the FBI is a many-headed hydra. It occupies a central space in the ever-expanding national security industry, and it’s this political and social terrain in which the agency competes for relevance and command over resources. That struggle has seemed to me the best way to make sense of, for example, the FBI’s apparent penchant for spending countless hours and dollars wheedling American Muslims into participating in fictional terrorist plots, in order to then arrest and prosecute them. It would seem a foolish, wasteful and counterproductive approach until one remembers that it supplies the FBI with success stories, headlines and a defense of its budget. Continue Reading →
"How is your outreach going with the Baptists or the Catholics?"
“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asked FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday whether the bureau had any outreach programs specifically for the Baptist or Catholic communities like it did with the Muslim community.”
–Ryan J. Reilly, Talking Points Memo Continue Reading →
“How is your outreach going with the Baptists or the Catholics?”
“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asked FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday whether the bureau had any outreach programs specifically for the Baptist or Catholic communities like it did with the Muslim community.”
–Ryan J. Reilly, Talking Points Memo Continue Reading →
Six Catholics, or Half a Dozen Communists?
21 December 2005 ACLU publishes a PDF of a recent FBI report on a Catholic Worker group in California. It reads like an old ’60s Jesus freak satire: One arrestee Continue Reading →
Dorothy Day, Terrorist
20 December 2005 Turns out progressive Catholicism is alive and well. Evidence of liberal theology’s efficacy comes from, of all places, the FBI, which as part of its duties in Continue Reading →
J. Edgar Hoover's Dream
There’s no mention of religion in Barton Gellman‘s brilliant, terrifying Washington Post report, “The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny,” but there doesn’t need to be for it to merit discussion on The Continue Reading →
J. Edgar Hoover’s Dream
There’s no mention of religion in Barton Gellman‘s brilliant, terrifying Washington Post report, “The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny,” but there doesn’t need to be for it to merit discussion on The Continue Reading →
Democrats and Gothics
Democrats and Gothics 17 June 2005 In a forthright 16-year-old girl from Queens, writes the NYT‘s Nina Bernstein, the FBI “met unsettling opinions and teenage defiance.” Only one thing to do, of Continue Reading →