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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Federal Bureau of Investigation
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- proper noun US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- proper noun UK Federation of British Industry 1916–1965, forerunner of
CBI (Confederation of British Industry). - noun
Fixed -bit index . - noun US, humorous
Female body inspector .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'FBI locates 780 pages of Vice President\'s \'FBI file, \' but hasn\'t released after nearly two years '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' In a letter to blogger Michael Petrelis, of PetrelisFiles. com, the section chief for the FBIs records management division acknowledged in August 2005 that the bureau had located some 780 pages on the vice president.
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A spokesman for the CBRC had no immediate comment. video: defazio on the 'bailout' from floating capital: Peter DeFazio takes 5 minutes today on the House floor to speak out against the outrageous Paulson intervention plan. fbi begins widespread financial probe of 26 firms from wikinews: The FBI is investigating 26 firms and 1,400 individuals involved in the US financial crisis for fraud and "sub-prime lending practices".
media monarchy 2008
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And building back doors into communications for the FBI is the worst thing we can do.
Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010
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Maybe the FBI is already tapping their phone lines under provisions of The Patriot Act that these morons wanted so badly ... talk about irony!
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The law enforcement official says the FBI is at the start of a lengthy sorting-out process in which agents will look into what caused the financial institutions to mishandle the flood of paperwork in the historic avalanche of foreclosures.
Federal Agencies Say They're Probing Foreclosure Problems AP 2010
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And building back doors into communications for the FBI is the worst thing we can do.
Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010
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A hazardous materials team has been dispatched to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Ogden, UT, and the FBI is at the scene to investigate white powder that has been found in the building.
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If you are a law-and-order type, you probably think the FBI is a pretty important outfit.
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And he's not worried the FBI is about to arrest him, either for claiming false military heroics or embezzling donations to the
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And building back doors into communications for the FBI is the worst thing we can do.
Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010
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