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FBI Opens Investigation into Murdoch’s Reporters
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is now looking into the scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s Brit reporters to see if they tried to access cellphone record messages and records of 9/11 victims, the Los Angeles Times reported. The FBI has opened up a preliminary probe into the scandal that has rocked Great Britain, and raised…
Families of Whitey Bulger’s Victims Speak Out
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST BAE Subsidiary to Pay $16 Million to Settle U.S. Bribery Case (Main Justice) U.S. Politicians Push for Probe into Murdoch (NY Daily News) The FBI’s Scotland Yard Jitters (The Daily Beast) FBI Failed to Provide Fingerprint Data for Suspected Ky. Terrorist (Louisville Courier Journal) Justice Dept. New Rule on Border Gun…

Michigan Prof Sues FBI and CIA; Claims Bush White House Tried to Smear Reputation
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole wants to take a peak at CIA and FBI files — and for pretty good reason. Last month, according to the New York Times, former CIA official Glenn Carle said the Bush White House wanted to smear Cole’s reputation and discredit him because he…

Agencies Like FBI, DEA, ICE Increasingly Asking For Facebook Info
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com High school buddies and colleagues aren’t the only ones who seem to have an interest in Facebook. Reuters reports that U.S. law enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, and usually the users doesn’t know. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges…

Unruly Saudi Man Arrested for Diverting Plane to Cleveland
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more news from the friendly skies. A 21-year-old Saudi Arabia man is facing charges for interfering with United Flight 944 from Chicago to Germany. Fox News reports that the FBI said that the unruly behavior of Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, aka Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, 21, of Riyadh,…
Whitey Bulger’s Girlfriend Called Sister While on the Lam
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Roger Clemens Plans to Question Validity of House Hearing (AP) Tampa Cop Shoots Man Family Said Was Suicidal (AP) Coast Guard Blues: Cuts Threaten Mission (Security DeBrief) Julian Assange Appears in Court to Fight Extradition (Wall Street Journal) Whitey Bulger Had Fake AARP Card and Other IDs (Patch)

FBI Investigating How Stun Gun Got on Jet Blue Flight to Newark
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Airport security never fails to amaze. Fox 5 News reports that the FBI is investigating how a stun gun made it onto a Boston to Newark flight on Friday. The station reports that a cleaning crew found a striker 1800 stun gun inside the back pocked of a seat on Jet…
Mexico’s Drug Violence Leaves 40 Dead
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Anonymous Steals Info From FBI Contractor (CBR Security) Gut Instinct Gets New Meaning for TSA (Boston Herald) FBI Says Loan Scams a Growing Problem (Fox) TSA’s Forced Indignities Don’t Make Us Safer (Bloomberg) ATF Tampa Division Walked Guns to Honduras (Fox)