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Growing Cases of Extremism Is Draining FBI Resources Nationwide
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is using several dozen surveillance teams to track criminal suspects around-the-clock nationwide, USA Today reports. Comey said the surge of cases involving extremism is taking a toll on the bureau’s resources, noting that each of the bureau’s 56 field offices is investigating suspected violent extremists. One suspect who required…
FBI: China-Based Hackers Stole Information on 4 Million Federal Workers
U.S. investigators believe China-based hackers stole identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers across virtually every agency.
DEA Agent Dies a Month After Motorcycle Crash in Indiana
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Scott Sieben, a DEA agent assigned to the Evansville, Ind., post, died this week from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash a month earlier, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. Scott Sieben, 54, died Tuesday in an Indianapolis hospital where he had been since the May 3 crash. Sieben previously worked…
FBI: Apple And Google Are Assisting Terrorists with Privacy Tecnhology
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Are Apple and Google the bad guys? A senior FBI official told a Congressional committee that the technology giants are aiding terrorists by offering users encrypted communications, a senior FBI officials told the House Homeland Security Committee, The Register reports. Michael Steinbach, assistant director in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said the…
Proecutors: Terrorism Suspect in Boston Planned to Kill Police with Knives
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not long before a 26-year-old terrorism suspect was fatally shot Tuesday during a scuffle with FBI agents and Boston police, he told a friend that he wanted to randomly kill police officers and bought three combat knives on Amazon.com, the Washington Post reports. A criminal complaint filed against Usaamah Abdullah Rahim…
Sen. Franken Drills Justice Department with Questions about Spy Planes
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Less than a week after the discovery that the FBI was using fictitious names of companies to conceal the use of small planes to spy on Americans, Sen. Al Franken is demanding more information on the surveillance flights, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The small planes, mostly single-engine Cessnas, were used…
Lawmakers Try to Protect Medical Marijuana Users from Zealous DEA
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s defiant crusade against marijuana users may cost the agency a lot of money. Federal lawmakers are considering several proposals that would severally limit the DEA’s ability to arrest marijuana users, the LA Weekly reports. One bill would protect hemp growers and sellers, and another would extend a law designed…
FBI’s Secret Insider Took Bribes from 2 Countries Ahead of World Cup
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s inside source on the FIFA investigation admitted to federal authorities that he took bribes from two countries that wanted to host the World Cup, according to ABC News. The informant, Charles Blazer, an American ex-FIFA executive committee member, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in 2013. New documents…