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FBI Probing Fla. Man Who Tweeted About Killing Cops
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and locals are investigating an Oviedo, Fla. man who posted a tweet on Twitter saying: “We won’t make a difference if we don’t kill a cop or 2,” according to station WESH Orlando. The station reported that Rusty Braxton, 23, posted the tweet after watching Occupy protests in New…
FBI Informant Slept With Muslim Women Agency Was Targeting
By Paul Harris The Guardian IRVINE, Calif. — Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow talk. “They said, if it would enhance the…
Secret Service Crosses Pond to Help Train Scotland Yard
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Elite U.S. Secret Service agents, who protect President Obama, are on a little mission across the pond. The Daily Mail in London reports that the agents are training Scotland Yard bodyguards to protect VIPS from “high-tech assassins.” The paper reported that police chiefs are worried computer hackers might infiltrate security for…
Penn State Begins Implementing New Guidelines Recommended by Ex-FBI Dir. Louie Freeh
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This won’t make this scandal vanish, but it may help avoid one in the future. The Associated Press reported that Penn State University has begun implementing new guidelines about identifying and reporting sexual abuse recommended by former FBI director Louis Freeh. The recommendations come in wake of the scandal involving former…
FBI Worried Scientology Leader Might Escape on Tom Cruise’s Plane
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI probe into Scientology and human trafficking is dead, the Village Voice reports, but the details are fascinating nonetheless. The newspaper reports that by around June, 2010, the FBI had planned to raid Scientology’s California international headquarters “using high resolution footage shot from drone aircraft, and had also recorded the…
FBI and Homeland Security Concerned About Attack at Home
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier could come back to haunt us here in the homeland. CNN reports that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security put out a bulletin on Wednesday issuing that warning, saying “there is currently no specific, credible threat information” but that the…
Woman Wore FBI Wire to Help Bring Down Ex-Ill. Gov Blago
By Craig Wall FOX Chicago News CHICAGO — Pam Davis said convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich has lost his sense of reality. “I feel a sense of vindication that justice has finally been served,” Davis said. “It’s taken more than eight years, but I do think truth prevailed.” It has been a long journey for…
FBI Wants Google’s Help in Accessing Pimp’s Phone
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Technology is once again bumping up against law enforcement. PC Magazine is reporting that the FBI has issued a warrant to get Google to give it a Gmail account and password and other info so it can tap into the Android cell phone of an alleged pimp suspected of playing a…