Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI

LONDON, KY - The United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation jointly announced today that four USP McCreary County Inmates and two others were charged in two separate federal indictments. The defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana, providing a prohibited object to an inmate, and an inmate in possession of a prohibited object.

Crooks and spies using the Internet to commit crimes against U.S. businesses and to attack government networks are getting more sophisticated, and the increasing number of such crimes not only impacts the economy but threatens national security.

That’s the message Shawn Henry, recently appointed head of our Cyber Division, delivered to a group of reporters on Wednesday, revealing that we have thousands of open cases into cyber crimes and organized cyber attacks and detailing our strategy to protect the nation’s networks.

WASHINGTON, DC - On Tuesday, September 16, 2008,  before the House and this morning before the Senate Director Robert Mueller talked about a number of key issues involving the FBI today. He announced, for example, that he has asked the National Academy of Science to conduct an independent review of the scientific approach we used in the anthrax investigation—because of the "importance of science in this case and in cases of the future."