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...Veteran FBI agent Danny Coleman, who served for years as the bureau's ranking expert on Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and the rest of the Qaeda inner circle, doesn't get too excited when he hears a report of Zawahiri's demise - such as the one that briefly grabbed headlines on Saturday before Pakistani officials shot it down...
...tests, run at the FBI laboratory in Washington, were definitive, and negative. "It was just some poor guy somebody dug up," says Coleman...
...wearing a wire? The speculation is making members of Congress nervous. As TIME.com reported last week, Cunningham?the California Republican who pleaded guilty on Nov. 28 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors?wore a wire to aid the Justice Department investigation just before his plea. The FBI is still probing defense contractors, and a private-sector source says Cunningham was wired while meeting a rep from at least one firm, possibly to get dirt on other members of Congress. An FBI spokesman wouldn't comment but quoted a higher-up: "Like I'd tell...
...legal counsel's office but that is emblematic of his scholarly approach, Alito argued that the Administration should not press the Supreme Court into throwing out a suit from the Black Panther Party that accused federal officials of conspiring against the group. Disagreeing with the Justice Department, the FBI and the CIA, he said none of the legal issues in the case?such as questioning a lower court's ruling that said it was important that the Black Panthers be allowed to keep their membership list private?merited Supreme Court review and the department should try to win the case...
...appeals court judge, a position in which he has overwhelmingly favored police and the government in criminal cases. He defended the strip search of a 10-year-old girl, saying drug dealers sometimes use children to help with their crimes. He ruled that evidence obtained by the FBI while monitoring a suspect for several months in his hotel suite without a warrant was permissible because police turned on video cameras only when an informant who was cooperating with officers entered the suspect's hotel room. In an opinion later overturned by the Supreme Court, he upheld a man's death...