By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something simply doesn’t jive if the the press reports are to believed. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that Steve Ibison, head of the Tampa FBI, said the agency found no connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a Saudi family who abandoned their Saraosta, Fla. home and new car several days…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI presentation at Quantico, Va., to agents that negatively portrayed devout Muslims, has been discontinued, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AP, citing a federal law enforcement official, said the lecture was given for just three days in April. One part of the lecture contended that the more devout Muslim are,…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director William S. Sessions is the latest to come forward and say the execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing a cop, should be halted because of “pervasive, persistent doubts” about his guilt. In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sessions, who was FBI…
By Spencer Ackerman WIRED (Danger Room) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds in Detroit scored a victory in a pretrial battle against the man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber.” The Detroit Free reports that U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds ruled Thursday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s incriminating statements he made to the FBI after the 2009 incident can be used in trial….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A scandal in Hollywood is brewing — and this time it doesn’t involve some affair, but rather a hacker. The Associated Press and Fox News reported that the FBI is investigating a series of computer hacking attacks on celebrities including Scarlett Johansson. Personal information and other materials were stolen. FBI spokeswoman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Las Vegas man is fuming over the fact the FBI has written a $2 million reward check to an Iceland woman who reportedly tipped off authorities about the whereabouts of fugitive mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in June. The Boston Herald reported that Keith Messina, 45, the manager of a Subway…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Is New York Times best selling author Ronald Kessler a little paranoid or just a little more important in the eyes of the FBI than the average Joe? Kessler, author of “The Secrets of the FBI”, tells Politico there’s “about a hundred percent chance that both his house and car are bugged.”…
