FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents leave the scene after they served a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
Metropolitan Police block off 17th St NE as FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
FBI surveillance video shows former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson accepting a bribe from real estate developer Mizra Baig. Jackson pleaded guilty in May and is to be sentenced Dec. 6. (FBI)
Former FBI director Louis Freeh speaks Nov. 21, 2011, during a press conference in Philadelphia to announce that he will lead an independent investigation into allegations of child abuse by a former Penn State employee. (Associated Press)
The FBI file on Joe Paterno made no mention of Jerry Sandusky, but did reveal a series of threatening letters sent to the former Penn State coach and his staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s that he believes were prompted by organized gambling. (Associated Press)
Director Clint Eastwood's take on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is humanizing and balanced. The story is "told" to viewers by an old Hoover dictating his life story to young FBI stenographers. Naomi Watts (below) portrays Helen Gandy, Hoover's loyal secretary for 54 years.
This undated image released by the FBI on Oct. 31, 2011, shows Richard Murphy (left) and Christopher Metsos in Queens, N.Y. Murphy was one of the ring of Russian sleeper spies shut down by federal counterintelligence agents in June of 2010 in a case code-named “Ghost Stories”, that led two weeks later to the biggest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the cold War. According to the FBI, Mestos is the 11th suspected ring member; he claimed to be a Canadian citizen, delivered money and equipment to the sleeper agents and vanished after a court in Cyprus freed him on bail. (Associated Press)
In this frame grab image from a surveillance video released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and partially obscured by the source, Russian spy Anna Chapman, wearing sunglasses, sits in a coffee shop in New York. Chapman was one of 10 Russian spies rounded up by the FBI last year. (FBI via Associated Press)
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, announces on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Washington that two men have been charged in an alleged plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
An FBI agent carries out evidence from Solyndra headquarters in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 8 in a probe of its collapse after receiving $535 million in federal loans. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** Stewart D. Nozette is seen in an Oct. 19, 2009, surveillance video in which he told an undercover FBI agent that he had given the agent "some of most classified information that there is." (Justice Department via Associated Press)
This photo of former NBA player Javaris Crittenton was released by the FBI on Aug. 29, 2011. Crittenton, who was wanted by the Atlanta Police Department on murder charges stemming from the Aug. 19 shooting of a 22-year-old woman, was arrested Aug. 30 at a Southern California airport. (Associated Press/FBI)