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  • "Killers can destroy innocent life" -- but what are we doing about it?

    Nearly five years after 9/11, many FBI agents still don't have e-mail accounts.
  • The enemy is closer than we think

    A top counterterrorism expert says the London suicide bombers may not have acted alone -- and America may be next.
  • What Deep Throat was up to

    Mark Felt fought a covert battle against Nixon's plan to create an imperial presidency. But could he have prevailed against George W. Bush, who has created a kingdom beyond even Nixon's dreams?
  • The ugly truth in the mirror

    From declassified FBI documents to a new report from Amnesty International, will the U.S. confront mounting evidence of its brutal practices in the war on terror?
  • Protecting the privacy of Osama bin Laden

    Responding to a FOIA request related to the flights the bin Ladens took in the days after 9/11, the FBI takes pains not to name names.
  • Uncle Sam's extreme makeover

    There's a bold new spirit in America: Downtrodden workers slaving harder than ever to build a better life for members of the investor class!
  • Next time, buy a Mac

    Three years and $170 million later, the FBI gives up on an anti-terrorism technology project that never worked.
  • Torture begins at the top

    A recently disclosed FBI memo indicates that "marching orders" to abandon traditional interrogation methods came from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld himself.
  • A spook speaks out

    In "Imperial Hubris," a not-so-anonymous senior CIA officer says that bin Laden isn't an apocalyptic evildoer who "hates our freedom" -- he and his followers have real grievances that we must address by changing our failed Mideast policies.
  • Indicting the FBI

    In a critical report, the staff of the 9/11 commission says the FBI failed to respond to the growing threat of terrorism.
  • 10 questions for John Ashcroft

    When the 9/11 commission grills the attorney general Tuesday, here's what they should ask.
  • "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"

    A former FBI translator told the 9/11 commission that the bureau had detailed information well before Sept. 11, 2001, that terrorists were likely to attack the U.S. with airplanes.
  • Outlawing dissent

    Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.
  • Terrorist threat or political hype?

    Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
  • Grounding the flying nun

    Activists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true.
  • Bush's 9/11 coverup?

    Family members of victims of the terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.
  • Senate report: FBI still unprepared

    A bipartisan report says the agency is still too cautious in dealing with terror suspects -- and has promoted the agents who bungled the Moussaoui case.
  • Day of the dead

    More than 325 women have been murdered in the free-trade boomtown of Ciudad Juarez in the past decade. Faced with government incompetence and corruption, people are rebelling.
  • The air industry's worst nightmare

    Just days ago, national security executives met secretly with airline CEOs to warn them that al-Qaida may be planning to fire shoulder-launched missiles at commercial jets in the U.S. There's virtually no defense.
  • Sept. 11 and wars of the world

    Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
  • Bush hawks commandeer 9/11 hearings

    Congress tries to ask why U.S. intelligence failed to predict the attacks, but Wolfowitz and Armitage only want to talk about why we must invade Iraq.
  • Congress frustrated by Bush stonewalling

    U.S. security agencies had signals years ago that foreshadowed 9/11. But the White House and key intelligence officials don't want to talk about it.
  • "The Cell"

    Listen to an excerpt from the new book by ABC newscaster John Miller and reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell on why the FBI and CIA failed to stop the 9/11 attacks.
  • Miss Liberty strikes back

    The courts and even some of his allies have turned against John Ashcroft and his attack on civil rights -- and he has only his own bungling and overreaching to blame.
  • Bio-sleuth or crackpot?

    Scientist Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has pressed to keep the investigation into last year's anthrax attacks alive. But bio-weapons researcher Steven Hatfill is not amused.
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