ICE Busts Website that Let People Download Current and Yet-to-be Release Movies

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have busted operators of NinjaVIdeo.net, a website that enabled millions of visitors to download  movies that were playing in the theaters and some that had yet to be released. The site also offered television shows. The probe, lead by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, resulted in…

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Senate Judiciary Gives Nod to 5 Nominees for U.S. Atty in Texas and Oregon and a U.S. Marshal in Fla.

  By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years after being elected President, the Obama administration is still working to fill the U.S. Attorney spots. The latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday gave the go ahead by voice vote for four U.S. Attorney nominees in Texas and one in Oregon. The full Senate must now…

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9/11 Changed Career for Ex-FBI Agent John Pistole: He Now Heads TSA

Also read AP Story: TSA Chief Optimistic About Everything But Terror        By Tim Evans Indianapolis Star Anderson native John Pistole was an FBI agent performing routine audits of the agency’s local offices when the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Counterterrorism wasn’t exactly Pistole’s area of expertise. Nonetheless, he was quickly pulled into…

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Our World Since 9/11: Mall of America Visitors Unknowingly End Up in Counterterrorism Reports

 Listen to NPR Radio Story   By G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting | Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting | Daniel Zwerdling, NPR BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the spooky world of homeland security. As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of…

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