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</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/20/saudi.leads.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/20/saudi.leads.tm/index.html</guid><description>The Saudis get blamed for not revealing more after 9/11. 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Bush spoke in Tbilisi, Georgia, last week was live and could have exploded, Georgian officials and an FBI agent have said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 12:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI: U.S. safer, not totally safe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/mueller.terrorism/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/mueller.terrorism/index.html</guid><description>The United States is now "safer" but not "totally safe" against terrorism, FBI Director Robert Mueller has said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 12:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-empting a spy chief?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/12/negroponte.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/12/negroponte.tm/index.html</guid><description>John Negroponte, the President's pick for the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), hasn't even been confirmed for the job yet, but he is already facing serious turf battles in the U.S. intelligence community.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attorney general defends Patriot Act</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/patriot.act/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/patriot.act/index.html</guid><description>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he is "open to suggestions" on changing the USA Patriot Act but would oppose any change that reined in the law enforcement powers approved after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds: Meth seizure largest in eastern U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/09/meth.bust/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/09/meth.bust/index.html</guid><description>Federal drug agents in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, have made what authorities call the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the eastern United States.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI chief vows to catch killer of judge's family</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/08/judge.bodies/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/08/judge.bodies/index.html</guid><description>Jailers cut off outside contact with imprisoned white supremacist Matthew Hale after he denied any role in the deaths of the husband and mother of a federal judge he was convicted of plotting to kill, Hale's father said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: FBI wasted millions on 'Virtual Case File'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/fbi.computers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/fbi.computers/index.html</guid><description>FBI Director Robert Mueller promised a Senate panel late Thursday that he will decide within two months whether to scrap special computer software for FBI agents after a report sharply criticized the program.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: FBI failed to probe internal spying charge</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/14/fbi.allegations/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/14/fbi.allegations/index.html</guid><description>The FBI failed to investigate properly charges of espionage made by a contractor who was fired "in large part" because of allegations she made against a co-worker, the Justice Inspector General concluded in a declassified report released Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI may scrap $170 million project</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/13/fbi.software/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/13/fbi.software/index.html</guid><description>A top FBI official said Thursday the bureau may have to scrap a computer program that so far has cost $170 million and was intended to be an important tool in fighting terrorism.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, advisers review 9/11 report proposals</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/26/bush.911/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/26/bush.911/index.html</guid><description>President Bush and top security officials on Monday studied recommendations by an independent commission that investigated the September 11, 2001, attacks, White House officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Networked Way to Fight Terror</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/12/375887/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/12/375887/index.htm</guid><description>In Chicago, the FBI gets a tip that terrorists plan to infect large numbers of Americans with a dangerous virus. But in the past the informant revealed information on smuggling, not terrorism. Agen...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senators warned on terror threats</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/terror.briefing/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/terror.briefing/index.html</guid><description>The chiefs of the CIA and FBI told senators Thursday that the current terror threat against the United States is at its highest level since the attacks of September 11, 2001, according to senators and congressional staff who were present at the closed-door meeting.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Convention security subject of congressional briefings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/07/convention.security/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/07/convention.security/index.html</guid><description>House members received a private briefing Wednesday from top federal officials about possible terrorism before the November election.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: FBI antiterror computer system delayed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/26/fbi.terror.computer/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/26/fbi.terror.computer/index.html</guid><description>The FBI's much-lauded computer system that was supposed to aid in tracking domestic terror threats will not be ready by year's end, as some top officials at the bureau had expected, according to a New York Times report published Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI: 'Credible' reports terror suspects seen overseas</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/03/terror.threat/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/03/terror.threat/index.html</guid><description>The FBI has received "credible" reports that suggest some of the seven terror suspects highlighted by the bureau last week have been seen overseas, a key official said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI chief proposes new intelligence service within agency</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/03/fbi.intelligence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/03/fbi.intelligence/index.html</guid><description>The FBI Thursday announced more reforms affecting how it conducts and organizes intelligence gathering amid some calls for creating a new domestic intelligence agency.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Out of sync on warning?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/28/terror.threat.sync/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/28/terror.threat.sync/index.html</guid><description>After two days of conflicting assessments and mixed signals on the urgency of the terrorist threat within the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge late Friday issued a joint statement citing "credible intelligence" of a threat to the nation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 04:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. identifies seven wanted in connection with al Qaeda</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/27/seven.suspects/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/27/seven.suspects/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller presented photographs of seven people they say are associated with al Qaeda.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 21:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands of tips received on suspected seven</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/27/terror.threat/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/27/terror.threat/index.html</guid><description>The FBI has received more than 2,000 tips from the public in the 24 hours after a news conference asking for help in locating seven people Attorney General John Ashcroft called al Qaeda operatives.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transcript: Ashcroft, Mueller news conference</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/26/terror.threat.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/26/terror.threat.transcript/index.html</guid><description>Intelligence from multiple sources indicates that al Qaeda intends to attack the United States in the coming months, according to U.S. officials. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller made the announcement Wednesday afternoon. The following is a full transcript from their press conference:</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 19:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds to start sharing terrorism data</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/25/fbi.sharing.data/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/25/fbi.sharing.data/index.html</guid><description>State and local police in New York and Vermont will soon have instant access to federal counterterrorism data under an FBI-run pilot program that could become a new weapon in the war on terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 21:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA investigates death of three detainees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/20/iraq.abuse/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/20/iraq.abuse/index.html</guid><description>The CIA is investigating three cases of prisoner deaths during interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 18:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to fix our intelligence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/19/intelligence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/19/intelligence/index.html</guid><description>Maybe it's just as well that in those frightening days after September 11 the nation didn't know what was in the CIA's files about terrorist plots to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A day for hearings, hostings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/14/wed/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/14/wed/index.html</guid><description>Three key storylines play out today: President Bush at the White House with Ariel Sharon. John Kerry in New York with Hillary Clinton. And the ongoing 9/11 commission hearings with George Tenet and Robert Mueller.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>9/11 commission faults U.S. intelligence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/14/911.commission/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/14/911.commission/index.html</guid><description>U.S. intelligence gathering was fragmented and poorly coordinated before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the 9/11 commission reported Wednesday, adding that it remains unclear how such crucial information is managed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Probing the memo</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/12/notebook.memo.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/12/notebook.memo.tm/index.html</guid><description>As the commission looking into the intelligence failures preceding 9/11 resumes its hearings this week, there will be a new exhibit A under public scrutiny: the supersecret CIA report on al-Qaeda that was given to George W. Bush as part of the President's Daily Brief (PDB) on Aug. 6, 2001, just weeks before the attacks on the U.S.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. officials: 9/11-type attacks still possible</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/24/terror.intelligence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/24/terror.intelligence/index.html</guid><description>Directors of the top U.S. security agencies on Tuesday told the Senate Intelligence Committee that terrorist networks are damaged, but still capable of targeting American interests, including plots on the same scale as the attacks of September 11, 2001.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Skilling: two tales of one man</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling_comments/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling_comments/index.htm</guid><description>After former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and insider trading Thursday, his lawyers and government prosecutors started arguing their cases in front of the news media.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>DOJ touts Skilling indictment</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling_doj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling_doj/index.htm</guid><description>At the moment attorneys for former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in Houston were blasting federal prosecutors for indicting Skilling on conspiracy and fraud charges, top federal law enforcement officials in Washington issued a joint written statement lauding their actions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>O'Neill book author: No classified material included</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/oneill.author/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/oneill.author/index.html</guid><description>The author of a new book that has put former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill at the center of a swirling controversy said Wednesday none of the documents he used in his research were classified.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:09:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>