Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent on temporary duty in Pakistan was arrested on anti-terrorism charges after authorities found ammunition in his luggage as he boarded a plane in Karachi, the Washington Post reports. The agent is being held in jail until at least Saturday as Pakistani officials investigate the discovery Monday of 15 bullets…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent acknowledged on the witness stand Tuesday that he may have unknowingly violated Justice Department guidelines in the case of there Cuban immigrants accused of the theft of drugs and expensive merchandise in the Las Vegas Valley. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that FBI Agent Shay Christensen admitted during cross-examination…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents made disturbing discoveries while searching the home of an avowed white supremacist accused of killing three people outside two Kansas Jewish facilities in April. The Associated Press reports that agents found directions to synagogues and kosher places to eat, a copy of “Mein Kampf” and a T-shirt with a swastika…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts concluded that states should administer capital punishment with a single drug approved by the U.S. government for executions, the Washington Post reports. The legal research team called the Constitution Project released the 165-page study, which also calls for lethal-injection protocols in each of the 35…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New CBP documents raise more pressing questions about how the federal government is handling complaints of abuse by Border Patrol agents, the Arizona Republic reports. The reports show that only 13 of 809 complains of abuse filed against agents from January 2009 to January 2012 resulted in CBP action. Of those, one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If help is requested, FBI agents may be deployed to Nigeria to help search for 276 teenage girls abducted from a school, ABC News reports. The news comes after the leader of Boko Haram, an African Islamist group, pledged to sell the girls as slaves. “God has commanded me to sell them,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are complaining that the FBI is getting in the way of legal counsel’s constitutional rights to meet with their client in private. The Boston Globe reports that lawyers filed the complaints in court late Monday, saying FBI continues to be “needlessly intrusive.” The lawyers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI in Salt Lake City is dealing with some pesky intruders. A variety of birds are nesting in the FBI’s parking garage – a problem that has plagued the bureau since moving into their new International Center Facility in 2012, FOX 13 reports. “Because of the vast amount of waste left by…
