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This image taken from video shows people holding up hands inside a cafe in Sydney, Australia Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. A gunman took an unknown number of people hostage inside the downtown Sydney chocolate shop and cafe at the height of Monday morning rush hour, with two people inside the cafe seen holding up a flag believed to contain an Islamic declaration of faith. (AP Photo/Channel 7 via AP Video) AUSTRALIA OUT

FBI director warned of home-grown extremists days prior to Australia siege

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FBI Director James B. Comey speaks during a news conference in Portland, Ore., in this Oct. 1, 2014 file photo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

James Comey refuses to say ‘never’ again to FBI media impersonation

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FBI Director James Comey speaks during a news conference at the FBI Albany Field Office on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

FBI director: U.S. vulnerable to major cyberattack

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by the FBI shows Adnan Shukrijumah. The Pakistan military issued a statement Saturday Dec. 6, 2014 saying Adman Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

Al Qaeda’s Adnan Shukrijumah, who once held U.S. green card, killed in Pakistan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Va., a civilian with the U.S. Navy, leaves the federal courthouse in Norfolk, Va. on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 after he was arrested on charges he tried to steal schematics for the under construction Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier for Egypt. Prosecutors said Awwad provided computer drawings downloaded from the Navy to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer in October. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

FBI charges Saudi-born naval engineer over plans to sink aircraft carrier

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A TSA officer pats down a traveler as he works his way through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Bloomington, Minn., Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

Racial profiling at border stops, airports allowed under new federal guidelines

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

The Department of Veterans Affairs pushed ahead on a construction project even after learning that its project manager was under FBI investigation and had been fired from a previous job for embezzlement — a decision that's now entangled the agency in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. (Associated Press)

VA ensnared in costly lawsuit after teaming up with shady contractor

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

This photo released by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows, Brad Pitt, left, as Wardaddy, and Shia LaBeouf as Boyd &quot;Bible&quot; Swan, in a scene from Columbia Pictures' &quot;Fury.&quot; (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Entertainment, Giles Keyte)

FBI looking into hack of Sony Pictures’ computers

By Brandon Bailey - Associated Press

Matt Drudge (Associated Press/Brian K. Diggs) ** FILE **

Drudge Report, WND go dark amid FBI warning of Sony hack

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Federal prosecutors admitted last week there were no cameras in the FBI's Washington Field Office, where and agent is under criminal investigation over accusations that he took heroin and guns seized as evidence in drug cases. (Associated Press)

FBI evidence goes unwatched in D.C. field office

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

This Nov. 18, 2014, file photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, as seen from the roof of the U.S. Capitol. Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent. But his wife didn't see it that way. Neither did a federal jury. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Supreme Court to consider Facebook threats case

By Sam Hananel - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. puts his hand to his face while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Associated Press photo.

FBI lax evidence-handling controls call convictions into question

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Illustration on Eric Holder's exacerbation of problems in Ferguson, Mo. by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CARL ROWAN: Michael Brown witness more heroic than Eric Holder

By Carl Rowan Jr.

Dirty Harry (Clinton Eastwood) wields his Smith and Wesson .44 magnum revolver. (Warner Bros.) ** FILE **

Black Friday gives gun sales a big bounce: FBI

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 18, 2014, photo, a researcher simulates a check done for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System or NICS, at the FBI’s criminal justice center in Bridgeport, W.Va. NICS did about 58,000 checks on a typical day in 2013. That surged to 145,000 on Black Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Stroud)

FBI data show thousands of gun sales beat checks

By Matt Stroud - Associated Press

Police watch the street as protesters gather Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more state militia into Ferguson on Tuesday, after a night of protests and rioting over a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

FBI agents shot at barricaded home near Ferguson protests

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Shan Zhao, owner of On On Cop Suey restaurant, looks at his business while cleaning up Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. after it was damaged in overnight protests following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown. (Associated Press)

Obama demands Ferguson looter prosecution, eyes race-based police hiring

By Phillip Swarts, Kellan Howell and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The Department of Veterans Affairs pushed ahead on a construction project even after learning that its project manager was under FBI investigation and had been fired from a previous job for embezzlement — a decision that's now entangled the agency in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. (Associated Press)

VA cuts ties to reverse-auction contractor FedBid amid scandals

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers held hostage by Islamic militants burn tires, during a demonstration to demand action to secure the captives' release, in front of the government headquarters in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. The militants, including the al Qaeda linked Nusra Front and the extremist Islamic State group, are holding some 20 Lebanese soldiers and policemen hostages since August, when they briefly overran a Lebanese border town. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Virginia woman arrested, accused of promoting Islamic State on Facebook

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

(Associated Press) ** FILE **

FBI: 150 Americans suspected of fighting in Syria with Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times