christopher wray
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FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly disobeyed the government’s official policy, but…
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Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online, and Boy Do the Feds Think a Lot of People Are Terrorists
Back in July, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko found what seemed to be a leaked FBI watchlist naming the personal details of close to 2 million suspected terrorists. Diachenko quickly filed a report to the Department of Homeland Security, hoping the agency would issue some sort of patch to keep this data from leaking into the…
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QAnon Is, Somehow, About to Get Worse, FBI Warns
QAnon, the rabidly pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory and future of the U.S. Republican Party, may have been seriously wounded by its godhead’s failure to ascend to transcendent levels of power this year. But they haven’t gone away, and the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning U.S. Congress that disaffected believers may even become…