WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product.

The CIA characterized the volume in court papers as “a polemic of recriminations against CIA officers who later criticized the operation.”

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler accepted the CIA’s arguments that the fifth volume entitled the “CIA’s Internal Investigations of the Bay of Pigs Operations” did not even pass through the first stage of a multilayer review process. The volume represented a proposal by a subordinate member of the history staff that was rejected by the chief historian as containing significant deficiencies, the CIA argued.

The CIA said the volume is protected from disclosure under the deliberative process privilege, an exemption in the Freedom of Information Act.

The National Security Archive, a private group seeking transparency in government, sued the CIA to declassify the volume.

The CIA had no problem declassifying an earlier volume of the history in which the author attacked President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, said Peter Kornbluh, who directs the National Security Archive’s Cuba documentation project.

“Apparently, the CIA sees no problem in the American public reading a ‘polemic of recriminations’ against the White House,” Kornbluh said.

In her decision Thursday, the judge said a draft history would risk public release of inaccurate historical information.

Kessler also cited the arguments of the CIA chief historian that disclosure would have a chilling effect on the CIA’s current historians. They would henceforth be inhibited from trying out innovative, unorthodox or unpopular interpretations in a draft manuscript, the agency said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An organization created to address online fraud says scams in which criminals impersonate FBI agents were one of the most common types of Internet crime complaints last year — a total of 14,350 nationwide.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center says it has handled over 300,000 complaints in each of the past three years. The 314,246 complaints in 2011 marked a 3.4 percent increase over 2010, when complaints totaled 303,809. The amount of money lost by the victims last year: $485.3 million.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A law enforcement official said Wednesday investigators are conducting a probe into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot in which an explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity about the ongoing leak investigation, which is just getting under way.

The probe follows stories by The Associated Press and other news organizations disclosing the terrorist operation by the group known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Robert Mueller (MUHL’-ur) has urged Congress to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart terrorism plots like the latest one in which an al-Qaida-engineered explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight.

Mueller tells a House panel the FBI is examining the device and says the scheme hatched in Yemen demonstrates that it’s essential for Congress to reauthorize counter-terrorism tools enacted in 2008. These programs expire at year-end.

The provisions allow the government to target electronic surveillance on foreign persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States.

The FBI director’s comments follow revelations that al-Qaida completed a sophisticated new, non-metallic underwear bomb last month and that the would-be suicide bomber actually was a double agent working with the CIA and Saudi intelligence agencies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abbott Laboratories has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion over allegations that it promoted the anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The case includes a criminal fine and forfeiture of $700 million and civil settlements with the federal government and states totaling $800 million. Deputy Attorney General James Cole said Monday the settlement reflects the determination by government “to hold accountable those who commit fraud.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has settled a first-of-its-kind discrimination case against the nation’s largest mortgage insurer for requiring women on maternity leave to return to work before the company would insure their mortgages.

The lawsuit filed last July against the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. alleged a violation of the Fair Housing Act and was the government’s first involving discrimination against women in mortgage insurance.

The lawsuit arose from a complaint to the Housing and Urban Development Department by a Wexford, Pa., loan applicant.

Seventy people will be compensated from a $511,250 fund. The Justice Department’s civil rights enforcement chief, Thomas Perez, says no lending company should force a parent to give up the right to take time off from work to obtain a mortgage loan.

A federal court approved the settlement.