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Illustration on criminal abuses within the FBI by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: FBI diverts public attention from wiretap violations, false testimony

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Illustration on the growth of evil in the world by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

SUZANNE FIELDS: FBI uses Holocaust to understand evil within ‘good people,’ appreciate America

By Suzanne Fields

A United Airlines jet blows snow on a runway at O'Hare International Airport, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, in Chicago. More than 1,100 flights have been canceled at Chicago's airports and snow-covered roads are making travel treacherous. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Researcher denied airline flight after tweet about hacking

By JACK GILLUM - Associated Press

This March 9, 2012, file photo shows FBI spokesman Kyle Loven giving a tour of the Emergency Operations Center at the new Minneapolis-area field office in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Loven, spokesman for the Minneapolis office of the FBI, said six people were arrested Sunday, April 19, 2015, but gave no further details. An FBI spokesman in San Diego referred questions to Loven. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti, File)

Six arrested in San Diego, Minnesota for Islamic State assistance

By Amy Forliti - Associated Press

A. Ryan McGuigan, attorney for Robert Gentile, gestures while speaking outside federal court, Friday, April 17, 2015, in Hartford, Conn. The reputed Connecticut mobster, linked to artwork stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in 1990, was arrested Friday on a gun charge. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Prosecutor: Convict offered sale of art stolen in 1990 heist

By Michael Melia - Associated Press

"Whistleblowers are kind of treated like a skunk at a picnic, and I hope you'll do all you can to reverse that," Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told FBI Associate Deputy Director Kevin Perkins at a hearing Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Chuck Grassley: FBI obstructing Fast and Furious, other probes

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom holds news conference on Friday, April 10, 2015 at the Federal Courthouse in Kansas City, Kan. John T. Booker was charged Friday with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group. Grissom says Booker was arrested Friday near Manhattan, Kan., about 100 miles west of Kansas City. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, John Sleezer)

Kansas man planned to bomb military base, support Islamic State: DOJ

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "wanted to punish America," a prosecutor told the jury in closing arguments Monday. His attorneys said Mr. Tsarnaev did indeed carry out the attacks but was under the influence of his brother, Tamerlan, who the attorneys said orchestrated the plot and built the bombs. Tamerlan was killed while trying to flee from police. (Associated Press)

Tsarnaev Boston Marathon bombing trial spotlights challenge of stopping ‘lone-wolf’ terrorists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this courtroom sketch, defendants Noelle Velentzas, center left and Asia Siddiqui, center right, appear in federal court with their attorneys, Thursday, April 2, 2015, in New York. The two women were arrested Thursday on charges they plotted to wage violent jihad by building a homemade bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type terror attack. (AP Photo/Jane Rosenberg)

2 N.Y. women arrested; U.S. authorities committed to stopping ‘homegrown extremists’

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle on the main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, in this Monday, June 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo, File)

Keonna Thomas, Philadelphia woman, accused of plotting to join the Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A police officer directs a vehicle to turn away at the National Security Agency, Monday, March 30, 2015, in Fort Meade, Md. Earlier, a firefight erupted when two men dressed as women tried to ram a car into a gate, killing one of them and wounding the other, officials said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FBI identifies man killed in NSA shooting

By Meredith Somers - Associated Press

In this image made from video and released by WJLA-TV, authorities investigate the scene of a accident near a gate to Fort Meade, Md., on Monday, March 30, 2015. A spokesman at Fort Meade says two people are being treated for injuries at one of the gates of the sprawling Army installation near Baltimore. (AP Photo/WJLA-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT

FBI: Terrorism not behind shooting at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa (Associated Press) **FILE**

Chuck Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, asks for investigation of FBI program

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group, slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo, File)

Hasan Edmonds, U.S. National Guardsman, arrested for trying to join Islamic State, authorities say

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pedestrians pass the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, late on Thursday, April 19, 2012. U.S. Secret Service employees and military personnel were accused of misconduct in connection with a prostitution scandal at the hotel before President Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza) ** FILE **

DEA agents hired prostitutes paid for by drug cartels

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FBI Director James Comey speaks during a news conference at agency headquarters in Washington on March 25, 2015, after the release of the 9/11 Review Commission report. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FBI needs better intelligence analysis: report

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FBI director James Comey gestures during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, after the release of the 9/11 Review Commission report. The report says the FBI must speed up the pace of its improvements to deal with the evolving terrorist threat around the world. The group was established last year to measure how well the FBI had followed an earlier set of recommendations in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Intel community wary of Islamic State influence on U.S. citizens

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A radio-controlled drone appears in flight during an International Drone Day event at an elementary school in Roseburg, Ore., in this March 14, 2015, file photo. (AP Photos/The News-Review, Michael Sullivan, File)

ATF grounds drone program as agents can’t maneuver them correctly, report says

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FBI Director James Comey speaks during a news conference at agency headquarters in Washington on March 25, 2015, after the release of the 9/11 Review Commission report. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FBI faces challenges keeping up with counterterrorism, needs better intelligence collection: report

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Kenai Police Sgts. Scott McBride, left, and Jay Sjogren review a map with Lisa Jaegar from the Mat-Su Search and Rescue Dogs on June 9 in Kenai, Alaska. Two rescue dog teams along with agents with the FBI searched the wooded area north of Wildwood Correctional Facility for a Kenai family of four, missing since May 27. (Associated Press)

Human remains found in Alaska, may be tied to missing family

By Dan Joling - Associated Press