Issues

Fears over covert DNA database By Stephen Fidler

November 18, 2008 - 2:12pm

Valuable intelligence on thousands of suspected terrorists risks being lost because of backlogs at a little-known US federal government database that processes DNA samples gathered in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The unfinished work at the database – part of a classified intelligence partnership of military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies – has been referred to in public documents but has not been openly discussed by US government officials.

Scientists Slam FBI Anthrax Probe

November 3, 2008 - 8:04am

It was an open-and-shut case, the FBI said.

But three months after agents pinned the post-9/11 anthrax mailings on Army scientist Bruce Ivins - who committed suicide as the FBI closed in on him - his former colleagues have approached a lawyer to sue the feds for fingering the wrong man, The Post has learned.

They argue that the FBI abused its power and violated its own policies as they probed an innocent man for six months.

Why did the NSA classify 'public' report on wiretaps?

October 29, 2008 - 11:19pm

Can't Touch This
Why did the NSA classify 'public' report on wiretaps?

Newsweek Web Exclusive-- by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

When Congress passed a landmark electronic-spying bill last summer, the measure included a key provision that ordered the inspectors general of U.S. intelligence agencies to produce the first-ever public report on President Bush's warrantless-surveillance program.