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ATF Holds Seminars to Avoid Errors on Paperwork That Jeopardizes Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Make a mistake on paperwork for a gun purchase can prevent authorities from tracking down a killer, the ATF warns, according to WDIO.com. To avoid mistakes made in the past, the ATF is hosting a series of seminars starting in Minnesota. ATF Senior Special Agent and Public Information Officer Robert Schmidt the…
Report: FBI Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Massacre Had It Acted on Alarming Messages
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI could have prevented the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood if agents acted on alarming messages between the shooter and a radical cleric with ties to the 9/11 hijackers, Mother Jones reports. FBI agents intercepted the messages nearly a year before Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood, according to…
NYPD Labels Entire Mosques As Terror Groups to Investigate Them and Their Followers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The New York Police Department has identified entire mosques as terrorism organizations, allowing police to record sermons, spy on imams and use surveillance on those who attend prayer service, CBS News reports. Although the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization, local police have launched at least a dozen…
Homeland Security Chief Napolitano Says Parting Words Before Leaving Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After more than four years of as the head of the Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano defended her tenure in one of the government’s newest departments, The Los Angeles Times reports. “Some have said that being the secretary of DHS is the most thankless job in Washington,” Napolitano said at the National…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Dream’ Speech Prompted FBI to Launch Spying Campaign
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech inspired African Americans in 1963, the FBI was worrying aloud whether the civil rights leader was gaining too much influence and popularity, Bloomberg reports. Two months after the speech, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved a campaign to spy on King in an…
FBI Agent Faces Trial After Shooting His Wife During an Alleged Confrontation
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent has found himself on the wrong side of the law. A second-degree murder trial is scheduled for Arthur “Art” Bernard Gonzales to begin on Oct. 16, Frederickburg.com reports. Gonzales, who has been working as a supervisory special agent-instructor at the bureau’s National Academy at Quantico, is accused of fatally…
Justice Department Launches Probe into Report That NSA Supplied DEA with Domestic, Non-Terrorism Intelligence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal lawmakers are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to respond to a Reuters report that showed the NSA was supplying the DEA with surveillance information about domestic, non-terrorism cases, Reuters reported Monday evening. Five Democrats in the Senate and three congressmen want to know if the DEA – as reported – passed NSA…
Federal Agent Returns Home After Hung Jury in His Second-Degree Murder Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A monthlong trial for a federal agent accused of murder in Hawaii ended in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict, ABC News reports. State Department Special Agent Christopher Deedy is headed home to Virginia, but he most likely will face another trial, ABC News wrote. “Mr. Deedy…