By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a potential terrorist threat that targets the U.S. The FBI made the discovery while intercepting chatter and gathering other intelligence information, CNN reports. It’s unclear how serious the threat was or what it involved. One U.S. official said the threat involved parts of California, which has stepped…
By Editorial Board New York Times The odds were 10-million-to-one, the prosecution said, against hair strands found at the scene of a 1978 murder of a Washington, D.C., taxi driver belonging to anyone but Santae Tribble. Based largely on this compelling statistic, drawn from the testimony of an analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days before President Obama was to visit Utah, an FBI agent’s sniper rifle was stolen from his car in Salt Lake City hotel, International Business Times reports. Police said the rifle was stolen from the agent’s parked car, where it was stored and properly locked down in a hard case….
FBI Director Eric Holder bid a heartfelt farewell to the Justice Department on Friday as he stepped aside for his successor. Holder served as the top law enforcement leader for the past six years. Loretta Lynch is replacing Holder after she was finally confirmed by the Senate. “I am proud of you. I’m going to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was within 60 seconds of dying after severing an artery in his leg in a car crash in Vermont eight months ago, USA Today reports. The extent of Freeh’s injuries was previously unknown by the public. FBI Director James Comey and Sen. Patrick Leahy spoke of…
By Hemp Today A 2013 Department of Justice memorandum designed to prioritize the goals of anti-marijuana legislation should shield Indian tribes who are looking at growing hemp as an industrial crop, former ND Federal Prosecutor Timothy Purdon said. The so-called “Cole memo” is a policy statement based on Deputy U.S. Attorney General James M. Cole’s…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For more than a year, former president George H.W. Bush’s home had a broken alarm system and Secret Service failed to fix it, the Washington Post reports. Although the alarm system monitors the property and the house, the agency rejected requests to replace it since 2010, according to an inspector general…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent said in a deposition that Paula Broadwell had regular access to CIA Director David Petraeus’ email that may have extended beyond the launch of an FBI investigation a month before the 2012 presidential election, Politico.com reports. Transcripts of the deposition show the CIA director was asked twice to…
