Subject: Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Busting the FBI

  June 27, 2002

• Letters

  July 18, 2002

• Light and Shadowing

  January 29, 2004

• Traitor: Spy vs. Why

  Little logic, less intrigue in terrorism thriller

  August 28, 2008

• A Vulgar Betrayal

  August 26, 2004

• Cold Trail

  October 25, 2001

• The Caged Lion

  Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday

  August 10, 2006

• The Death Team

  June 8, 2006

• The Spy Trap

  May 4, 2006

• Earth to ELF: Come In, Please

  Does the radical environmental group really exist?

  December 22, 2005

• The Wild Goat Farmer

  September 15, 2005

• FBI’s Dirty Laundry

  U.S. senators want answers in the firing of a whistleblower agent — and the role of the media

  July 21, 2005

• Deep Throat’s Crimes

  Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

  June 9, 2005

• Bush’s Biggest Mistake

  April 8, 2004

• Hard Cell

  April 1, 2004

• Secrets of Timothy McVeigh

  March 25, 2004

• The Pelican Briefs

  November 13, 2003

• In the Land of the SUV

  September 25, 2003

• The War on Due Process

  July 10, 2003

• Check This Out

  July 10, 2003

• I Give

  May 15, 2003

• If It Happened Here

  February 27, 2003

• No Secrets

  September 5, 2002

• Shrieking in Cyberspace

  August 29, 2002

• No One To Tell

  August 15, 2002

• Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

  August 8, 2002

• The Terrorist Motel

  August 1, 2002

• Indicting Ashcroft

  June 6, 2002

• Watching the Detectives

  April 18, 2002

• Mum’s the Word

  February 7, 2002

• 10 Insects To Look for In 2002

  January 3, 2002

• Radiating Fear

  November 15, 2001

• The Back Story

  November 1, 2001

• Heartland Conspiracy

  October 4, 2001

• The War at Home

  September 20, 2001

• The Day the Sky Fell

  September 20, 2001

• Crack Cop

  July 26, 2001

• FBI to E-Mailers: Bite You

  August 10, 2000

• The Short List

  March 9, 2000

• L.A. Mob Does Vegas

  May 7, 1998

• Back to Iraq

  April 2, 1998

• Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

  It was a surprise to get another letter from Shayne Allyn Ziska, a former correctional officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, who has continuously protested his innocence ever since he was found guilty of racketeering, conspiracy and civil rights violations by a federal judge in 2006. The Weekly wrote a lot about his bizarre case, and now it turns out he’s on a hunger strike, at least according to a letter I got from him this week. Ziska, who is locked up i

  May 12, 2008

• Pot Pharmacies Raided, Dog Shot

  The L.A. Times reports that federal and local law enforcement agencies raided a pair of Westside medical marijuana pharmacies today, along with the homes of their owners. In one of the raids a pit bull was shot although, according to the Times report, it is expected to fully recover. It's unclear whether the dog was shot in a dispensary or at its owner's home. The raids hit the Organica Collective at 13456 Washington Boulevard, Marina Del Rey and Overland Gardens at 2452 Overland Avenue, West L.

  August 12, 2009

• L.A. Federal Building Standoff Continues

  Update: The Daily Breeze identifies the suspect as Joe Moshe, 56, of Westchester. Moshe's mother and neighbors are quoted in the story as saying he is depressed, unemployed and does not take needed medication, which is not specified.The L.A. Times' Andrew Blankstein reports that the LAPD tried to end a five-hourlong stalemate between it and a man in a car by ramming it with an assault vehicle. The unidentified man allegedly sent threatening messages to the White House. The standoff began earlier

  August 13, 2009

• Just In: Michael Jackson's Huge FBI File For Sale, 10 Cents Per Page

  Gay blogger and activist Michael Petrelis, who's based in San Francisco, received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday. According to the FBI, he can buy Michael Jackson's FBI file, which is a whopping 591 pages, for $49.10. "There is a duplication fee of ten cents per page," writes FBI section chief David Hardy. "The first 100 pages will be provided to you free of charge." Who's bad?​Petrelis publishes the FBI's response on his blog, The Petrelis Files. He received the letter after

  August 18, 2009

• Senior Citizen With Oxygen Tank Robs Bank

  Times must be really hard. A man described as 70- to 80-years-old walked into a San Diego bank today and robbed the place of an undisclosed amount of cash. He was actually seen with an oxygen tank and a tube running to his nose.FBIThis guy​ Witnesses, apparently, did not recount seeing a weapon. The FBI describes the suspect as 6 feet, 4 inches tall. He was wearing a blazer, slacks and prescription glasses when he walked into the San Diego National Bank branch at 7877 Ivanhoe Ave. in the

  September 12, 2009

• Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

  September 17, 2009

• Secret criminal billionaires: Big-rig cargo thefts worth $$$ are hitting L.A.'s port

  Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig container, each stuffed with goods worth between $12,000 -- in, say, Fruit of the Loom Underwear -- to as much as $3 million -- in, say, iPhones. That's per big-rig container. These massive heists have been a dirty, not-so-well-kept secret that the cities of

  October 14, 2009

• Grim Sleeper Task Force Discusses Serial Case with FBI Profilers

  Grim Sleeper Task Force members met with Federal Bureau of Investigation profilers recently to discuss the decades-long case and see if the federal agency had any suggestions about how to catch the elusive killer who has evaded the Los Angeles Police Department since 1985. "They research serial killers and they go out and interview them to try and figure out why these guys are doing what they are doing," said detective Cliff Shepard, who attended the sit-down meeting with the feds on September

  October 14, 2009

• Mother Is Looking For $?: Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested

  In the ever expanding times-are-hard news file comes another desperate story: An unemployed mother of five was arrested in San Diego in connection with a series of bank robberies.FBIA woman suspected in a string of robberies is captured on video.​ Roxanne Renee Pennock was arrested after she allegedly robbed a Chase bank in Temecula last week, authorities reported Thursday. She was connected to three other bank heists, including one other in Temecula and one in Poway, where she lives with

  November 12, 2009