Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI continues to investigate Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, who died in a car crash in June, for “controversial reporting,” Al Jazeera America reports. The bureau opened a file on Hastings on June 11, 2012 “to memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012,” according to records obtained…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Late novelist and poet Charles Bukowski was not ashamed to admit it – he was a “dirty old man.” That caught the FBI’s attention, as did Bukowski’s potential ties to the underground press, reports the Los Angeles Times. More than 100 pages of FBI files from 1968 show agents investigated Bukowski, a postal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI analyst was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for possessing child pornography, The Washington Post reports. Keith Dietterle, 28, who admitted to sending a pornographic image to an undercover officer, was nabbed in an undercover sting in November. Dietterle was busted after communicating through a social…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Border Patrol agents estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is nearly twice the estimate of 11 million by the government and other demographers, the Washington Times reports. “The more likely figure is 18-20 million and rising daily,” Zack Taylor, chairman of the National Association of Former Border…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal jury has found notorious gang member Adalberto Ariel Guzman guilty of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and firearms offenses, the FBI reports. Monday’s conviction offers some relief to family members and friends of a mother and her 2-year-old who were shot execution-style in Central Islip, New York, in 2010. Guzman,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert S. Mueller III got quite an initiation when he started with the FBI. Just days after becoming director, he was faced with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. His term was supposed to last 10 years, but his tenure was extended two extra years. That extension ended this month. Not…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the prospect of U.S. military involvement in Syria raises, the House Homeland Security Committee plans to meet Tuesday to discuss the potential domestic security implications, The Star-Ledger reports. Authorities are worried that a military strike would inflame anti-American sentiments and prompt a terrorist attack. “In light of the atrocities witnessed in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com With two days until the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the federal government is on high alert but has found no credible or detailed information about an imminent threat, The Associated Press reports. Concerns of an attack on Western targets will remain high this week as federal authorities recall…
