Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A group of privacy advocates is suing the FBI for refusing to release details about its Next Generation Identification system, which will be one of the largest biometric databases in the world, WND reports. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the suit, demanding information about technical specifications and private companies that are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Sacramento-based shoplifting crew accused of making more than $3 million selling more than 17,000 items from retailers on eBay, News 10 ABC reports. Seven suspects were identified in criminal complaints that were unsealed Wednesday.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twelve years after Robert Fisher slaughtered his family and burned them in his Arizona home, the FBI is still searching, KTVK-3TV in Phoenix reports. Fisher is one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives, and he has eluded capture ever since the crime. “We continue to believe he is alive,” said Mark Hoffman,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has come under fire for questionable purchases using taxpayer dollars, WSB-TV 2 reports. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee found the department spent $600,000 on event planners to organize five Justice Department conferences, the news station found. Another $10,000 in federal police grants was spent on a pizza party. The…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. This is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Part one of this report discussed the…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Daryl McCrary is no stranger to the world of violence. Having spent 21 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) he’s worked in places like Los Angeles and Baltimore. He’s gone undercover, he’s bought guns on the street and investigated gangs and violent…
New York Times Editorial In a series of raids in suburban New York in 2006 and 2007, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement burst into private homes in the dead of night, without warrants, looking for undocumented immigrants, often in the wrong houses. They pounded on doors, terrorized innocent residents, ineptly drew guns on police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saying his political opponents secretly recorded an internal campaign meeting, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants the FBI to investigate, the New York Times reports. The Republican from Kentucky discovered the recording when Mother Jones magazine released a 12-minute audiotape from a Feb. 2 campaign staff meeting. “We’ve always said the left…
