9/11 study: FBI lacks info on al-Qaida cash
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The FBI has developed &quot;very little quality finished intelligence&quot; about al-Qaida&#39;s financial methods, despite the agency&#39;s assurances since the Sept.
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A phone company cut off a FBI foreign-intelligence wiretap after the FBI failed to pay its bills, according to an internal audit. The disconnection was just one consequence of the FBI's routine late payments to the nation's telecoms for wiretaps and surveillance infrastructure.
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he FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases, according to a Justice Department audit
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The U.S. government was studying a copy of a purported new videotape of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, which an Islamist Web site said it would soon show to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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This is not a way to endear yourself to taxpayers or critics: The FBI may have to nix a $170 million computer revamp that was designed to boost data-sharing capabilities and cobble together a clearer picture of the terror threat. -washingtonpost.com
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After more than a decade hunting al-Qaida, U.S. counterterrorism agencies are reviewing their understanding of the terror group, which they strongly believe was behind the plot to blow up some 10 jetliners bound for the U.S.
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Al-Qaida's embrace of violence may be undermining the terrorist group's support in the Muslim world, the nation's top intelligence official said Thursday.
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Nov. 1. - Two Pakistan-based FBI officials recently met Indian Intelligence officials and sought Delhiâs help in tracing and nabbing Al-Qaida chief Osama-bin-Laden and his accomplices, who they suspect may have plans to sneak into India.
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WASHINGTON - The FBI has spent more than a year covertly investigating, including with the use of electronic surveillance, whether a Pentagon analyst funneled highly classified material to Israel, officials said Saturday. Prosecutors were still weighing whether to bring the most serious charge of espionage...
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A Pentagon report rejects the idea that intelligence gathered by a secret military unit could have been used to stop the Sept. 11 hijackings.
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the Bush administration still does not fully   understand the threat from al Qaeda, a congressional report   released on Wednesday said.
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Despite major increases in money and personnel, the FBI is still failing to translate many al-Qaida surveillance recordings in a timely manner and faces a giant backlog of untranslated material from terrorism and espionage investigations, a new Justice Department audit shows.
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More than 120,000 hours of wiretapped conversations between terrorist suspects and sympathisers since the September 11 attacks have not been translated because of the FBI&#39;s lack of linguists, according to an official report.
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Problems 'serious and must be addressed immediately' The FBI repeatedly broke the law by secretly accessing information about US citizens under a law passed to curb terrorism, according to the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General in a report that prompted a sharp rebuke from legislators and civil libertarians.â¦
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.
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The FBI has squandered $170 million  on a failed computer system agents can use to instantly share  information, and seems to know neither how long it will take  nor how much it will cost to build one, a Justice Department  audit showed on Thursday.
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The 9/11 commission gives more details on the plot and its financing