The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson and Carol Leoning report that now-taxpayer owned AIG was being investigated by the FBI as early as March to see if it was deliberately giving the wrong value for its mortgage-related investments. Yesterday the FBI announced it was doing ...

The Wall Street Journal's Evan Perez reports that the FBI is starting to probe the big contributors toward the financial mess -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG. While the FBI is now looking at 26 companies, lawmakers have criticized ...

The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson gives a round-up of FBI Director Robert Mueller's day on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee. Mueller resisted calls for a Congressional inquiry into the FBI's all but closed investigation into the 2001 mail delivery of anthrax that ...

The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson reports that the Justice Dept. is putting into place today new rules that increase the power of FBI agents. The rules basically allow the FBI to interview people related to an investigation, without a warrant, without telling their superior. The rules make the FBI ...

The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau reports that the President is entrusting the FBI to open a criminal investigation against somebody "without any clear basis for suspicion." Attorney General Michael Mukasey promises, however, that the FBI would still need a "valid purpose" ...

The New York Times Eric Lichtblau and Nicholas Wade look at the continued skepticism by forensic scientists about the FBI's assertion that Bruce Ivins acted alone in delivering deadly anthrax. The FBI held a press conference yesterday where bureau scientists made the unusual move of laying out exactly how ...

The FBI seems to have put together a preponderance of evidence linking Bruce Ivins to the anthrax mail attacks that killed five in September 2001. But Congress wants to know the process of the FBI's  seven-year investigation and why the Bureau is so sure Ivins acted alone. Both the House ...

The New York Times' Adam Nossiter reports that FBI and Housing and Urban Development agents raided a New Orlean nonprofit housing agency intended to help Hurricane Katrina victims. The Affordable House Ownership Program was supposed help elderly and poor residents displaced by the ...

So says Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.) about the FBI's seven-year investigation of who killed five people and threatened many others by sending anthrax through the mail. The Wall Street Journal's Gary Fields and Evan Perez report that Grassley is calling for Judiciary Committee ...

The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson, Del Quentin Wilber, and Dan Eggen report on the big beltway news in an otherwise quiet Washington: the FBI has determined that Bruce Ivins, a former Army bioweapons scientist, acted alone in 2001 when he sent anthrax ...