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FBI Director Mueller Says Special Interrogation Group Used More Than a Dozen Times in Past 2 Years
By CNN WASHINGTON — A special group set up to interrogate captured terror suspects has been mobilized more than a dozen times in the past two years, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. “It’s been effective,” Mueller told a House appropriations subcommittee when asked about the use of the so-called High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, known…
Head of NJ FBI Not Happy With NYPD Spying on Muslims
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York Police Department’s spying on Muslims in New Jersey is not only ticking off Muslims. The FBI is none too happy. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that the NYPD activity, which as been written about in the media, is rubbing Michael Ward, head of the New Jersey FBI, the wrong…
Hacker Helped FBI Break Big Case With Anonymous
By Donna Leinwand Leger USA TODAY An influential computer hacker turned FBI informant led investigators to his former accomplices, helping federal agents make their first significant crack into Anonymous, a cybergroup that attacks corporate and government websites. Four members of the international computer hacking group LulzSec were charged Tuesday with a worldwide conspiracy after the…
Obama Orders Atty. Gen. Holder to Investigate Oil Price Speculation
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday at a press conference that Attorney General Eric Holder will reconstitute the Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group to probe the rising prices at the gas pumps around the nation. The move comes amid a consensus that speculation is what has driven the cost…
FBI Announces $1 Million Reward to Help Find Ex-FBI Agent Who Vanished in Iran in 2007
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the five-year anniversary of his disappearance– which happens to be this week — the FBI is offering a $1 million reward and is launching a publicity campaign in Asia to try to locate and bring home ex-FBI agent Robert A. Levinson, who vanished while on business in Iran. The…
ATF’s #2 Says Agency Mistakenly Used Drug Strategy in Operation Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The number two person at ATF says a key mistake in the controversial Operation Fast and Furious was that “a narcotics based strategy was applied to a firearms trafficking investigation.” Tom Brandon, who stepped in last October as ATF’s deputy director as part of an effort to clean house after…
Atty. Gen. Holder Defends Right to Kill American Terrorists Overseas
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Monday defended what he sees as America’s right to kill suspected American terrorists overseas. “Let me be clear: an operation using lethal force in a foreign country, targeted against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces, and…
Policing Crime Stoppers
BY ANDREW STRICKLER The Daily A host of financial issues at the nation’s largest Crime Stoppers programs is calling into question how wisely some are using funding received from their often cash-strapped communities. Many are spending just a fraction of their revenue on rewards or costs related to call centers, according to information from federal…