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FBI’s Change In Mission Causes Confusion, Concern

“If you tie yourself to national security, you get funding and you get exemptions on disclosure cases.”

When the FBI was formed in 1908, it was established as the national detective bureau charged with the investigation of interstate crimes, offenses against federal property and personnel, and violations of federal statute. The federal police, as it was envisioned, was supposed to be a shining example of law enforcement, unencumbered by local

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Senate Torture Report Remains Shrouded From Public

More than ever, the report needs to be declassified so those with a political agenda can no longer manipulate public opinion, Sen. Martin Heinrich said.

WASHINGTON --- Not a single word of a 6,000-page Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture in the context of the war on terror has been deemed fit for the public and declassified.

A year after the Senate Intelligence Committee adopted the landmark, reportedly comprehensive investigation, the

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Carey L. Biron is Washington correspondent for MintPress and for Inter Press News focusing on issues of equity and accountability, environmental and corporate regulation, and international development and governance from Capitol Hill. Carey spent much of the past 15 years covering South and Southeast Asia as a radio and print reporter and editor.