By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Don’t let his code name with the FBI fool you. Informant “Mellow,” as he’s code-named by the bureau, is anything but mellow. MassLive.com reports that David Rodriguez, a former Latin Kings ember, helped target 24 suspected drug and gun dealers for the FBI in the less than a year in Massachusetts. Rodriguez…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, a federal court jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Washington Post reports. The same jury will now decide whether he spends the remainder of his life in prison or is executed under a federal death penalty statute. Tsarnaev stood with his head bowed…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is warning that hackers claiming to be ISIS sympathizers are attacking websites with security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. PC World reports that some of the plugins were providing an easy back door for some hackers to gain access and inject scripts or install malware. The hackers targeted news organizations,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation received another setback Tuesday after a judge refused to lift a temporary hold on the executive action. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville declined the administration’s request to lift the preliminary injunction issued on Feb….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service had a recent mishap behind the wheel at the White House, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from teaching President Obama’s oldest daughter how to drive, The New York Daily News reports. “The Secret Service (taught her) actually, because they wouldn’t let me in the car with her,”…
The Buffalo News Editorial Board The good news – and it is good news – is that the FBI has made great strides in transforming itself since the 2001 terror attacks. In a new report by the FBI 9/11 Review Commission, the agency is credited with significantly improving the number of analysts qualified for their…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA and Justice Department have been secretly amassing logs of nearly all international phone calls that originated from the U.S., the USA Today reports. The collection of billions of calls came nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The government has tracked calls to as many as 116…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect who caused the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in 1995, The Arizona Republic reports. The derailment about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix caused the death of one Amtrak employee and the injury…
