Eileen Sullivan

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National Security

NSA surveillance: A new door to court challenges?

Eileen Sullivan · February 26, 2014 9:33 pm

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One, Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Hawaii for their annual family vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama hints at changing phone records collection

Eileen Sullivan · December 21, 2013 3:01 am

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a speech after of his remarks during the Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The FBI has helped to disrupt or prevent nearly 150 shootings and violent attacks in 2013 alone, in part by steering potential gunmen toward mental health professionals. There have been hundreds of these disruptions since 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder told an audience of police chiefs in October, touting the behind-the-scenes work of a small FBI unit based out of Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FBI disrupts shootings through interventions

Eileen Sullivan · December 16, 2013 4:30 pm

A sign stands outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus on Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Fort Meade, Md. Another release of declassified government surveillance documents is underway as part of an ongoing civil liberties lawsuit. The Obama administration published more than 1,000 pages of once-secret court opinions and National Security Agency procedures on the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Nov. 18, 2103. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

NSA vowed repeatedly to fix its collection errors

Eileen Sullivan · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

FBI Director James Comey takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine threats to the homeland. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FBI: OK for Congress to talk to Benghazi survivors

Eileen Sullivan · November 15, 2013 12:05 am

Official: al-Qaida in Iraq strongest since 2006

Official: al-Qaida in Iraq strongest since 2006

Eileen Sullivan · November 14, 2013 4:22 pm

Law enforcement unfamiliar with Homeland Security nominee

Eileen Sullivan · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This file image from the FBI website shows Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi. Al-Libi, who was captured in an Oct. 5, 2013, raid and held aboard a U.S. warship, is now in the United States. He is expected to stand trial over whether he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

As Gitmo plods, Obama’s winning the case for court

Eileen Sullivan · October 15, 2013 1:42 pm

FILE - This file image from the FBI website shows Abu Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade. Al-Libi was captured in a raid Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, and is being held aboard the USS San Antonio, a warship mainly used to transport troops. Instead of sending suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay or secret CIA "black" sites for interrogation, the Obama administration is questioning them aboard U.S. naval vessels. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

National Security

Government to follow humane tactics questioning al-Libi

Eileen Sullivan · October 8, 2013 8:08 pm

Navy Yard weapon exempted under proposed ban

Navy Yard weapon exempted under proposed ban

Eileen Sullivan · September 18, 2013 8:49 pm

This Sept. 11, 2001 file photo shows smoke rising from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City. The U.S. government is aware of no credible or specific information that points to any terror plot tied to the anniversary of the September 2001 attacks, according to a new confidential threat assessment from the FBI and Homeland Security Department obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

National Security

FBI, DHS: No specific threat to 9/11 anniversary

Eileen Sullivan · September 6, 2013 7:30 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, two guards are stationed outside the Devens Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Devens, Mass. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday, April 26, 2013, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing April 15, 2013, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Boston suspect is moved; FBI searches landfill

Eileen Sullivan, Michael Kunzelman · April 26, 2013 4:00 am