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Mike Levine is Fox News Channel’s Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security producer. Based in Washington, he covers stories involving federal law enforcement and federal courts. Mike first joined Fox News in 2002.
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October 30, 2009 3:53 PM
Federal authorities have openly expressed concern that Americans who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia could easily return to the United States thanks to their U.S. passports. But privately law enforcement officials are also worried about another possible scenario: Fighters from the group could be smuggled into the United States to launch ... read more
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October 14, 2009 11:39 PM
A Somali man on the U.S. government's terrorist watchlist was stopped last week by a police officer outside Las Vegas, but the officer had no legal authority to detain the man so he was sent on his way, multiple law enforcement sources told FOX News. On Oct. 6, about 10 miles north of Las Vegas, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer pulled over a rental car that ... read more
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October 6, 2009 5:27 PM
Although Obama administration officials now acknowledge they're unlikely to meet the self-imposed deadline to close Guantanamo Bay, Attorney General Eric Holder insists setting a deadline was the "wise" thing to do. "It's going to be difficult for us to make the Jan. 22 deadline," Holder told a group of reporters on Tuesday. "But I do think that it was the right thing ... read more
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October 6, 2009 8:31 AM
A Fox News Channel producer who covers the Justice Department and federal courts appeared before a federal judge himself on Monday – in a case involving threats to a Justice Department official. That producer would be me, Mike Levine, and I was one of 45 people told over the weekend to report for jury duty Monday morning at U.S. District Court in Washington. The ... read more
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September 22, 2009 10:11 PM
The most recognizable and outspoken voice of terrorist propaganda in war-torn Somalia has surfaced for the first time since being uncovered by FOX News as an American from Alabama. Abu Mansour al-Amriki — or Omar Hammami as he was known — appears in a video posted online Tuesday by the group al-Shabaab, which has ties to Al Qaeda and was labeled a ... read more
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August 31, 2009 10:52 AM
Federal authorities have stripped an American of his citizenship and are now trying to deport him for allegedly helping Nazis in his native country. The Justice Department initiated removal proceedings against John Kalymon of Troy, Mich., based on his participation in violent acts of persecution while serving as an armed member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian police ... read more
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August 28, 2009 3:17 PM
A member of an Al Qaeda-linked group in the Philippines -- whom U.S. authorities have been trying to track down for the past decade -- showed up in a federal courtroom in Washington earlier today. Nearly nine years ago, in November 2000, a grand jury in Washington indicted Madhatta Haipe for allegedly orchestrating the kidnapping five years earlier of four Americans ... read more
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August 12, 2009 4:30 PM
A third man from Minnesota has now admitted to joining an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. Federal authorities in Minneapolis have unsealed charges against Kamal Said Hassan, believed to be in his early 20s. He pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to charges that he lied to FBI agents investigating how more than 20 Somali-Americans were recruited to join the group ... read more
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August 4, 2009 6:31 PM
Federal authorities are advising police and law enforcement partners across the country that a terrorism plot uncovered in Australia -- involving Australian citizens who were allegedly recruited to join an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia -- has no connection to a similar trend in the United States and does not indicate any heightened threat to the United States. In a ... read more
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Mike Levine
November 11, 2009 5:37 PM
The Complete Notes: Feds Talk About Hasan
The big questions about the Ft. Hood massacre: What did the FBI and others know about Maj. Nidal Hasan, when did they know it, and why didn't they do more? Investigative officials held a nearly hour-long briefing with reporters on Monday night, trying to answer those very questions. Here is one of the most in-depth and unabridged accounts published to date of the ... read more