FBI

Agents at the bureau are still mostly white men, and the failure to recruit a more representative population into its ranks is becoming a crisis.

• By Topher Sanders

The FBI's latest probe into the foundation may seem like a political witch hunt, but there are reasons to wonder what's going on with the organization.

• By Jeffrey Berry

In its case against inauguration protesters, the government is aligning itself with far-right propagandists and fringe vigilantes.

• By Elizabeth King

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, pled guilty to a crime with a controversial history.

• By Austin Sarat

The agency's reported investigation of rapper Meek Mill's latest prison sentence seems to be an exception to a rule.

• By Jack Denton

Facing pressure from the CIA and FBI, Trump balks at full declassification.

• By Jack Denton

The search warrant was not yet supposed to be released, and was only made public this week due to an error.

• By Jack Denton

Internal talking points from Donald Trump's spy chief reveal tensions between the president and the intelligence community.

• By Mattathias Schwartz

The patient, sophisticated, and very aggressive prosecution of the energy giant could signal how he will handle the Russia investigation.

• By Jesse Eisinger

The gaps in data damage efforts to understand the nature and scope of violence driven by racial and religious hatred.

• By A.C. Thompson & Ken Schwencke

A statement from former FBI Director James Comey appeared on the Senate Intelligence Committee's website Wednesday.

• By Nick Hagar

How is it that so many U.S. officials know what happened in a closed-door meeting?

• By Jared Keller

Sources say Clinton aide Huma Abedin was forwarding far fewer emails containing classified information to her husband, Anthony Weiner.

• By Kate Wheeling

Steven Spielberg's movie captures the essence of the Cold War in the tale of a man whose "legend" was so encompassing, U.S. agents did not learn his true identity until the Soviet Union started to collapse.

• By Tim Weiner

The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.

• By Julia Angwin

Apple claims the government wants to put your privacy at risk.

• By Allison Shapiro

It's not uncommon for entire tractor trailers to go missing.

• By Robin Washington

A new memoir by the Unabomber’s younger brother seeks to humanize Ted Kaczynski, with mixed results.

• By Nathan Smith

The government unleashed Big Data to shut down Medicare fraud. Why isn't it working?

• By Joe Eaton

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

As questions swirl around U.S. efforts to keep people with terrorism ties from entering the country, the story of Rahinah Ibrahim is a cautionary tale.

• By Raymond Bonner

How Michael Jon Hand, at the center of a mystery surrounding an Australian bank with ties to American intelligence officials that defrauded investors and then collapsed, was found in Idaho 35 years after disappearing.

• By Raymond Bonner

Denis Villeneuve’s movie gets much right about the borderlands but crosses the line into exaggeration. A veteran border correspondent compares the film’s underworld to the one he knows.

• By Sebastian Rotella

In order to be heard, first you must be seen.

• By Jared Keller