- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
- Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
- Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a Turkish-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March, 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, …
- Mark Foley
Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. Once known as a crusader against child abuse and exploitation, Foley resigned from Congress on September 29, …
- Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series "The X-Files" and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series "Bleak House".
- David Duchovny
Biography : Rocketing from obscure bit player to TV's resident uber-sex god thanks to his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files , David Duchovny can claim to have had one of the 1990s' more remarkable career metamorphoses.
- Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, …
- Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights.
- Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times.
- Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Atta ("') (September 1, 1968 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the head suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Atta is suspected of using numerous aliases during his lifetime, including Mehan Atta, Mohammed Atta, Mohammad El Amir, Mohamed El Sayed, …
- Warren Jeffs
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955 in San Francisco, California) is the alleged leader of a controversial polygamist Mormon sect frequently denounced by the mainstream LDS church, known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Jeffs' position in this organization is reportedly that of an absolute ruler, and his followers refer to him as a prophet and a direct blood descendent of both Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith.
- Eric O'Neill
Eric M. O'Neill (born 1973) is a former American FBI operative. He worked as an Investigative Specialist, of the Special Surveillance Group (SSG), and played a role in the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia. O'Neill graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. in 1991, and earned dual degrees in political science and psychology from Auburn University in 1995.
- Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for murdering two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been considerable debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial. Some supporters and organizations, including Amnesty International, consider him to be a political prisoner.
- Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, …
- John Dean
John Wesley Dean III (b. October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. As White House Counsel, he became deeply involved in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the FBI. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of Watergate, and went on to become a key witness for the prosecution, …
- Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for a period of at least 15 years. He is currently in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, …
- Curt Weldon
Curtis "Curt" Weldon (born July 22, 1947) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, representing the seventh district of Pennsylvania. He was defeated in November 2006 for reelection by Joe Sestak. Weldon was vice-chair of the Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. He was also the co-chair of the Duma-Congress Study Group, …
- Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim and also known by dozens of aliases, is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was arrested at an al-Qaeda safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995 and was extradited to the United States.
- Rick Renzi
Richard George "Rick" Renzi (born June 11 1958) is an American politician and has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing. Renzi is currently under federal investigation for his involvement in a land-swap deal.. On April 19, 2007, the FBI raided his family business, and he temporarily resigned from the House Intelligence Committee. On April 27 Renzi denied printed claims he was considering resigning office.
- David Koresh
David Koresh, (born Vernon Wayne Howell), was the leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be the final prophet, until a 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and subsequent siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch. Koresh, 53 adults (including two pregnant women) and 21 children died in the fire.
- John Dillinger
John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 - July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized him as a latter-day Robin Hood. He gained this reputation (and the nickname "Jackrabbit") for his graceful movements during bank heists, such as leaping over the counter (a movement he supposedly copied from the movies) and narrow getaways from police. His exploits, along with those of other criminals of the 1930s Depression era, …
- Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was an attorney who worked in the United States Department of the Interior during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cohen at the time was allegedly a contact with the Soviet Military Intelligence GRU "Illegal" apparatus. Cohen, according to FBI reports, exchanged information with GRU "Illegal" Officer Ignacy Witczak.
- Hani Hanjour
Hani Saleh Hanjour, (August 13 1972 - September 11 2001) was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. The FBI believes that he piloted the plane and crashed it into The Pentagon. Hanjour is largely considered to have been among the most conservative and religiously observant of the hijackers.
- Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government.
- John Miller
John Miller is the Assistant Director of Public Affairs for the FBI. Miller is a former ABC News reporter and anchor. He conducted a famous May 1998 interview with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Miller attended the Emerson College for one year. He began work as a journalist in 1973 for WNEW in New York City. Miller cut his teeth as an investigative journalist for WNBC from 1985 to 1994. He is regarded as an expert on organized crime, especially the Mafia, …
- Scott Horton
Scott Horton is an assistant editor at Antiwar.com and is the host of "Antiwar Radio". Previously, Horton was host of The Weekend Interview Show on the Republic Broadcasting Network in the United States. Since 1999, he has hosted six shows in Austin, Texas, beginning with "Say it Ain't So" on the infamous underground station Free Radio Austin – twice the target of FCC raids.
- Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley. [Source: Publicity photo] Minnesota FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, upset with what she considers lying from FBI Director Mueller and others in the FBI about the handling of the Zacarias Moussaoui case, releases a long memo she wrote about the case two weeks before 9/11. [ Time, 5/21/2002 ] She also applies for whistleblower protection.
- John Ford
John N. Ford (born May 3, 1942) is a funeral director, insurance agent, and consultant in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate, representing District 29, and the brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Sr. and hence the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. In April 2007 he was convicted on Federal bribery charges.
- Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris (born 1940) is an American author of crime novels, most notably "The Silence of the Lambs", which was made into a film of the same title starring Jodie Foster as trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar-winning portrayal of serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. As of 2007, Harris has published four novels featuring Lecter and one other. All of his novels have been adapted into a film, …
- Anthony Lapaglia
Anthony LaPaglia (born 31 January, 1959) is an Australian actor, best known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series "Without a Trace", a role which won him a Golden Globe Award. LaPaglia was also heavily considered for the lead role of Tony Soprano on the HBO hit show "The Sopranos". He also appeared as Jimmy Wyler, the lead during the second and final season of the television program "Murder One".
- Gary Webb
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report series, written for the "San Jose Mercury News". In the three-part series (later published as a book), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras.
- Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, …
- John Young
John Young is a New York based architect, but is better known as the controversial Internet activist who created and maintains Cryptome.org. Cryptome is a web-based mirror of government information, memorandums, policy documents, and records. In his capacity as administrator of Cryptome, Young has courted controversy, receiving visits from the FBI, subpoenas, Slashdot interviews, and an attack in "Reader's Digest". Public opinion on Cryptome is varied.
- Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as "nigga", "honky," "cracker" and "motherfucker." He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations, …
- Joshua Wolf
Joshua Wolf is a freelance journalist who, after filming certain clashes between anarchists and the police refused to release full videos of the riot. The FBI subpoenaed him to provide "all documents, writings and recordings related to protest activities conducted in San Francisco" between 6:30 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. on July 8 as well any cameras and recording devices. His case was picked up by the National Lawyers Guild, …
- Orlando Bosch
Orlando Bosch (also known as Orlando Bosch Avila) is a Cuban exile and former CIA-backed criminal, head of CORU organization, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization." Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called Bosch an "unrepentant terrorist." He has been accused of taking part in Operation Condor and several other terrorist attacks, …
- Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
- Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell (born December 17, 1962) was a central figure in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jewell, working as a private security guard, discovered a pipe bomb, alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it went off. Initially hailed in the media as a hero, Jewell later mistakenly emerged as a suspect, and despite never being charged, …
- Jim Garrison
Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) - who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early '60s - was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" was convicted and given a prison sentence of 22 years in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.