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Imitation May Not Always Be The Most Sincerest Form of Flattery: Spanish Lawmaker Rejects Apology Over FBI Use of Photo
FBI used lawmaker’s photo for bin Laden By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Try telling that to Spanish lawmaker Gasperon Llamazers. On Tuesday, the angry lawmaker rejected the United States’ apology after the FBI used his photo to create a digitally aged image of Osama bin…
FBI Illegally Collected Telephone Records During Bush Years, Wasington Post Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A yet to be released Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported. The paper reported that the FBI illegally collected the records by “by invoking terrorism…
NY Times Reports that More Clues in Christmas Day Bombing Were Missed than Administration Publicly Disclosed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It seemed refreshing when the Obama administration released a report on the the intelligence community’s failure to connect the dots that could have prevented the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Detroit bound plane. But the New York Times reports that there “were far more warning signs than the…
FBI’s Flawed Science on Bullets Causes Problems in Convictions
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s theory about bullets sounded downright impressive at the time. That’s no longer the case. Just recently, three murder convictions were overturned because of the agency’s flawed science, the Associated Press reported. The flap centers around the FBI’s now “discredited theory that bullets found at a crime scene…
Sen. Kerry Wants to Force FBI to Release More Files on MLK
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation requiring the FBI to release more records relating to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Boston Globe is reporting. The bill would require that all the files be “located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to…
FBI Raid in Detroit Where Imam Died Raises Concerns About Informants in Mosques
The use of FBI informants in mosques is causing a lot of tension around the country between Muslims and the FBI. Here’s one of those instances. BY NIRAJ WARIKOO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER DETROIT — He called himself Jabril. Two years ago, a white man who claimed he was an ex-con and convert to Islam…
U.S. Missile Strike in Pakistan Kills One of FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, who had a $5 million bounty on his head, was killed on Jan. 9 by a A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, the Associated Press reported. Attributing the information to three Pakistani intelligence officials, the AP reported that the strike killed Jamal Saeed Abdul…
FBI Launches Digital Fugitive Billboard in Times Square
fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, you can’t get much more high profile than this: a GIANT billboard in the middle of Times Square in the Big Apple. The FBI announced Friday that it was unveiling a digital billboard in Times Square that will highlight wanted fugitives, missing persons and high-priority security messages. “Most…