By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a crushing defeat to the President Obama administration, a federal appeals court has unanimously ruled Thursday that the NSA violated the law by collecting data on all U.S. telephone calls. The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the surveillance program was “an unprecedented contradiction of the privacy expectations…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI warned Garland police that one of the two gunmen who would open fire outside a cartoon contest to draw Prophet Muhammad in Texas may be targeting the event just hours before the shooting, The New York Times reports. “We developed information just hours before the event that Simpson might…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The American Psychological Association has been complicit in the CIA torture program, violated the ethics code and now appears to be assisting the FBI with similar programs, according to a blistering 60-page report by experts and doctors. The report, “All the President’s Psychologists,” alleges that the APA, which prohibits psychologists from…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s powerful Public Integrity section, which investigates politicians and judges, has a new leader, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. U.S. Attorney Jack Smith, who has been a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, brings a wealth of background and knowledge to the position. Smith was a criminal prosecutor, for example, in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After several embarrassing failures to protect the White House from jumpers, the Secret Service has added sharp metal spikes to the fence, NBC News reports. “The temporary design solution for the White House complex fence is meant to improve security, while minimizing visual impacts and respecting the significance of the White…
By Ellen Glasser President, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI Throughout its history, the FBI has accepted its responsibility to serve and protect the American people. At times, this responsibility draws intense scrutiny. As former agents, we understand and accept such scrutiny because we know the public trust is earned. Last week,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces two likely, grim possibility – the death sentence or life in one of the most destructive prisons in America, “a place so isolating that it has been called a clean version of hell,” NBC News reports. The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Colorado, also…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has acknowledged that it sent aircraft into the sky to watch over rioting in Baltimore. The news comes after numerous sightings of aircraft over the city. The FBI told the Baltimore Sun that the aircraft was intended to monitor criminal activity. “The aircraft were specifically used to assist in…
