
Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
by John Sexton29 Oct 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

Secretly-made recordings of former Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle have gone public, revealing, in his own words, how he lured kids into sexual situations.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Oct 2015, 6:27 PM PST0

An 8-year-old girl in Illinois is lifting the spirits of police offers all over the U.S. with packages of crosses. The latest package landed with the Chula Vista Police Department in California.
by Mary Chastain29 Oct 2015, 5:32 PM PST0

On October 28, Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced legislation to close a non-existent “background check loophole.”
by AWR Hawkins28 Oct 2015, 5:56 PM PST0

The FBI has issued an alert to police departments across the country warning that anarchist groups are planning a “Halloween revolt” plot aimed at attacking local police during Halloween week.
by Warner Todd Huston28 Oct 2015, 3:54 PM PST0

As the FBI and Department of Justice have been called in to investigate, new facts are still emerging in what Black Lives Matter activists have dubbed the #AssultAtSpringValleyHigh after videos of a Columbia, South Carolina, deputy forcibly removing a non-compliant student from a desk went viral after the Monday incident.
by Lee Stranahan27 Oct 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

White House officials are aggressively pushing back at FBI director James Comey’s remarkable—although indirect—public criticism of President Barack Obama’s crime policies.
by Neil Munro26 Oct 2015, 9:15 PM PST0

Minors caught up in sex trafficking will not longer be counted as suspects, but as victims in cases handled through the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
by Michelle Moons24 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Addressing intelligence officials on Friday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a stunning estimate of 900 investigations currently in progress against suspected ISIS operatives, recruits, and individuals “inspired” by the Islamic State, and the number of investigations is slowly growing.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:40 PM PST0

In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
by Lee Stranahan23 Oct 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

The family of accused ISIS recruit Guled Omar, a 21-year-old resident of Minneapolis, has complained that he is confined under “inhumane” conditions that may cause him to “suffer mentally.”
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:04 AM PST0

A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Oct 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

On October 19 the FBI released a report which shows that 48,315 police officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2014, and “28.3 percent” of the assaulted officers sustained injuries.
by AWR Hawkins19 Oct 2015, 5:15 PM PST0

If we weren’t so numb to lawlessness and politicized bureaucracy from seven years of Obama scandals, this would be a national outrage. The President just tried to influence the outcome of a criminal investigation, on behalf of a powerful Democrat politician. Of course, he loves to insert himself into politically useful criminal matters, while having nothing to say about politically damaging ones, such as sanctuary-city murders by illegal aliens.
by John Hayward16 Oct 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

A huge 135-city FBI sex-trafficking investigation freed 149 children and apprehended 150 pimps, according to a statement released Wednesday. The nationwide sweep involved over 500 members of law enforcement in cities from coast to coast. The investigation focused on hotels, casions and truck stops.
by Warner Todd Huston14 Oct 2015, 8:37 PM PST0

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday the recruitment of potential homegrown terrorists by the Islamic State group is widespread and goes on “24 hours a day” across the United States.
by Breitbart News14 Oct 2015, 7:56 PM PST0

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that dozens of American citizens are clandestinely communicating with the Islamic State from their homes in the continental United States.
by Jordan Schachtel9 Oct 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

“With the consent of our client and their end user, and consistent with our policies regarding data privacy, yesterday, Tuesday, October 6, Datto delivered a hardware device to the FBI containing all backed up data related to Platte Rivers Networks’ client known to be in its possession,” said the company. The “end user” would presumably be either Hillary Clinton or an entity under her control, such as the “Clinton Executive Service Corporation,” which pops up in many stories about how Platte River Networks was contracted to take care of the email server.
by John Hayward8 Oct 2015, 7:19 AM PST0

Hillary Clinton’s lawyers have agreed to hand over online backups of her emails made through an Internet “cloud” storage system to the FBI, and the Senate Homeland Security committee has also asked to see these files.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 7:38 AM PST0

The FBI seized four servers from the State Department building a few weeks ago as part of the investigation into classified material improperly stored on Hillary Clinton’s secret email server, particularly the Top Secret documents that have been discovered in her email trove.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

In an interview that reportedly took “three months of often covert communications” to arrange, the BBC interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow about his life as a fugitive from American justice.
by John Hayward6 Oct 2015, 6:47 PM PST0

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.
by Sylvia Longmire1 Oct 2015, 10:58 AM PST0

Many of the documents in this new release were “born classified,” under a presidential order that treats all foreign government information as confidential by default – a protocol Hillary Clinton was thoroughly instructed on, and would have been re-briefed on several times during her tenure as Secretary of State. One very good reason for the “born classified” rule is that the U.S. government doesn’t want foreign officials to be reluctant to share such information.
by John Hayward1 Oct 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

2013 was a banner year for gun sales, with a record 21,093,273 background checks for gun purchases completed. And with all those new guns in circulation, the FBI reports that murders and robberies have decreased.
by AWR Hawkins29 Sep 2015, 6:19 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton’s State Department aides tried to dodge suspicions about the agency’s coordination with the private Clinton Foundation, with top Hillary aide Cheryl Mills instructing her contacts at the Foundation to use her private gmail account when sending her secret information.
by Patrick Howley28 Sep 2015, 9:49 PM PST0