Jackee Taylor entered when she was 7 years old and wishes it had never happened. — -- Jackee Taylor still remembers when her mother woke her up in the middle of the night and U.S. Marshals were ...

Developed by Justice Department employee Gerald Shur and beginning in 1971, the Federal Witness Protection Program—or Witness Security Program (WITSEC)—has provided safe harbor for over 18,000 federal ...

L-R: Justin Piasecki, 'WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program' by Pete Earley, and David Kob Getty/Anita Lashey EXCLUSIVE: Pete Earley and Gerald Shur’s nonfiction book WitSec: Inside ...

HBO is moving forward with The Witsec, a drama that will explore the birth of the federal witness protection program. The series will focus on a Department of Justice lawyer and a mob hitman who form ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Marshals Service gave new names and identities to "known or suspected" terrorists admitted to the witness protection program and allowed them to fly on commercial airlines, ...

What is the Witness Protection Program? And what, exactly, happens when a person enters Witness Protection? Here's what you need to know about the secretive program, adapted from an episode of The ...

Since 1967, when Gerald Shur created the federal Witness Security Program, or WITSEC, almost 7,500 witnesses and their 14,000 family members have been relocated in the United States. That means that ...

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Several known terrorists in the Department of Justice witness protection program were allowed on commercial flights even though they were on the “no-fly” list intended to help track and restrict their ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN REPORT)--- The U.S. Marshal Service had been 'unable to locate' two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program 'identified as known or suspected terrorists,' ...