Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has released footage of the Navy Yard gunman stalking the corridors in search of victims. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, 34, believed he was being controlled by low frequency radio waves, an FBI spokeswoman said, BBC reports. “At this point I can confirm that there are multiple indicators that Alexis held…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The stream of young Somali Americans joining terrorists in Somalia continues to flow despite an attempt by authorities to cut off money to support terrorism, the Associated Press reports. The population is concentrated in Minnesota, where Somali Americans have been leaving to join al-Shabab in Somalia for six years. At least 22…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bad news continues to follow ATF. This time, the federal agency lost 420 million cigarettes, misused $162 million in profits from stings and conducted dozens of unauthorized investigations of illegal tobacco sales, the inspector general said, according to the Associated Press. Investigators were unable to locate 2.1 million cartons because of shoddy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI began the grueling process of investigating a bullet-riddled Nairobi mall where more than 60 people were killed by terrorists, the Associated Press reports. Agents were working along bodies crushed by rubble as they began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to determine the identities of the terrorists. The FBI believes Americans…
The History Channel listed 10 fascinating facts about the FBI. Here are five of them. 1. J. Edgar Hoover served 48 years as director of the FBI, spending 62% of his life at the helm. FBI directors are now restricted to 10-year terms. 2. The FBI went through a variety of names in the early…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ever wonder why no one on Wall Street was charged in connection with the 2008 financial crisis? The FBI will have even less time investigating Wall Street after the bureau reduced the amount of time its agents spend on white-collar crime, the Los Angeles Times reports. The FBI has reduced its recommendation…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S Border Patrol, as part of a lawsuit alleging the agency racially profiles people, has agreed to share records of each traffic stop in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula for 18 months, ABC News reports. The ACLU has alleged in a lawsuit that Border Patrol agents were pulling over people without reasonable suspicion…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s botched gun-buy sting in Milwaukee took another turn for the worse, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Karen Loebel said two more cases related to the sting need to be dismissed because the lead agent cannot be called as a witness. The case is the eighth…
