Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When FBI agents Matt and Katia Litton were arrested in an alleged steroid ring in September 2010, they were shocked. Sure enough, the charges were dropped two months later. The couple said they were taking steroids because they were trying to have a baby, the Washington Post reports. Still, three years after…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The NSA’s deputy director has expressed skepticism about giving the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement access to the agency’s troves of data, the Guardian reports. NSA’s top civilian, John C. Inglis, said he was unaware of a Senate bill that would allow some law enforcement to search directly through the NSA’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com They call him Papa Smurf. The alleged mobster, Carmine Franco, 78, will spend two to three years in prison after he was sentenced Friday to racketeering charges, the New York Daily News reports. Franco is accused in a multi-crime-family plot to seize control of waste hauling in New York City and New Jersey between…
By Jeff Stein Newsweek Nobody at 60 Minutes has been fired or even publicly disciplined for its odd, inflammatory and dead-wrong October 27 story on the Islamist assault in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. But it has apologized. That mea culpa, however, left some large and troubling questions unanswered;…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI agent credited with capturing notorious gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger provides new details about the June 2011 arrest, CBS reports. CBS released a short clip previewing the interview with Scott Garriola that will be aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday. When FBI agents raided Bulger’s apartment, they found a collection of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Washington Times has sued Homeland Security after federal agents seized a reporter’s notes, the Associated Press reports. The suit accuses federal agents of illegally seizing the materials during a search warrant over a gun and potato launcher allegedly possessed by the reporter’s husband. Now the newspaper wants the notes back and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What does it mean to be alive? Who are we? What is our purpose? Those weren’t the question the FBI was interested in answering while agents spied on French philosophers John-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Instead, the FBI was concerned about their politics and whether they were a danger to the U.S.,…
