How Did the FBI Miss Omar Mateen?
Law enforcement did all it could, but post-9/11 restrictions on “probable cause” limit the FBI’s ability to investigate would-be terrorists.
David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
Bruce Stokes
James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
Lauren Wolfe
Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
The Myth of the Big Bad Lone Wolf
Trying to stop lone-wolf terrorists -- much less mentally ill murderers -- is a waste of law enforcement's time and money.
I Spy
Welcome to the FBI's new mission.
Hoovered
How J. Edgar laid the groundwork for the NSA's surveillance state.
Spies Like Them
How Robert Mueller transformed -- for better and for worse -- the FBI into a counterterrorism agency.
Spycraft for Hacks
A veteran FBI agent's rules for how to get a juicy leak in the Obama era -- and not get caught.
Did the FBI Bungle the Tsarnaev Case?
What the bureau can and can't do on American soil.
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About David Gomez
<p> David Gomez is a former assistant special agent in charge and counterterrorism program manager with the FBI. He now runs HLS Global Consultants, a risk-mitigation consulting firm. Follow him on Twitter: @allthingshls. </p>
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