By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s hard to imagine a team with a 34-3 record throwing games, right? Well, the FBI tracked San Diego State during its fantastic 2010-11 season, unbeknownst to coaches, players and school officials, CBS Sports reports. The FBI cleared the university of wrongdoing. The investigation began after one of the 10 men…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former President Ronald Reagan exploited his relationship with the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover as an informant to get the agency to provide information on his children Michael and Maureen and to obtain information unavailable to the public, LA Observer reports. Citing Seth Rosenfeld’s new book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Walter S. “Bud” Flalkewicz, a retired DEA agent supervisor, died of a heart attack Aug. 28, the Baltimore Sun reports. Flalkewicz, who was 86, died at his grandson’s house in Florida. A former Army reserve who obtained the rank of major, Flalkewicz earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Baltimore…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some members of Congress are questioning the legality of Homeland Security seizing domains and taking down URLs accused of copyright infringement, CNET reports. Among the concerns are that Homeland Security is “seizing the domain names of websites whose actions and content are presumed to be lawful, protected speech,” some Congress members…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The hacker group Anonymous announced it has stolen information from an FBI laptop computer that carried information on more than 1 million iPhone and iPad users, Forbes reports. While Forbes was unable to verify the authenticity of the data, writer Andy Greenberg said the information “does seem to be an enormous…
