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 ...

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 ...

Gerald Shur, the retired founder and longtime head of the Federal Witness Protection Program, poses for a portrait May 6, 2002 at an undisclosed suburban location. The U.S. Federal Witness Protection ...

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 ...

Say the words “witness protection program” and you think of federal informants living quiet lives with new identities in podunk locales. For anybody who saw the movie Goodfellas, you’re reminded of ...

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 ...

"Should you ever be accused of terrorism, here's what you should do," says Spencer Ackerman at Wired: "Snitch on your friends, demand to be placed under witness protection, then fly out of the country ...

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 ...

U.S. officials lost track of two suspected terrorists after they were given cover in the federal witness protection program, according to a bombshell report. In July, the U.S. Marshals Service said it ...