By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We could be headed for bigger trouble if we don’t develop a highly secure alternative Internet to fend off the ever increasing cyber threats against critical utilities and financial systems, an FBI official told the Associated Press Thursday. Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director, told AP that critical systems are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the second time in less than a week, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings has publicly blasted Republican Rep. Darrell Issa over ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen, all with the hopes of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels. ATF lost track of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It wasn’t the Avon lady. It wasn’t even two generous ladies seeking donations for the poor and needy of Somalia they claimed to be. Amina Farah Ali, 35, and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 64, two naturalized U.S. citizens from Somalia living in Rochester, Minn., were convicted Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony Delonis tested his First Amendment rights in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania via Facebook and lost. The Legal Intelligencer reported that a federal jury on Thursday convicted him of threatening people through Facebook postings including an FBI agent, his estranged wife, the Pennsylvania State Police and the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Manhattan doctor has been supplying street gangs with the powerful painkiller Oxycodone for street sale, authorities say. Dr. Felix Rodriguez was arrested when DEA agents and deputy U.S. Marshals raided his offices Wednesday morning , reports NBC New York. The internal medicine doctor wrote hundreds of prescriptions for gang members…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There has been an avalanche of opinions voiced by ex-FBI agents and current ones over the upcoming film “J Edgar” and his portrayal as being gay. Now, some Gay rights advocates are weighing in. “I don’t know specifically why current officers object to the claim that Hoover was gay,” Jacob Appel,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years into the Obama administration, the Justice Department appears to be as hard-nosed about challenging reporters’ rights to protect confidential sources as it was under the Bush administration. The latest: The Justice Department has gone to the Court of Appeals to challenge District judge, who ruled that New York…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A top lieutenant to a Colombian drug kingpin was convicted in a Manhattan court this week of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and heroine, according to a Justice Department press release. Jose Mosquera-Prado, 36, was a top lieutenant in Francisco Gonzalez Uribe’s international narcotics-trafficking organization, says the Justice Department, and…
