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Day of Reckoning: Deadline to Avoid Homeland Security Shutdown Is Today
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The fate of Homeland Security’s budget and President Obama’s immigration plan is in the hands of the U.S. Senate on the final day before money runs out today. The New York Times reports that the Senate is expected to vote today on a measure that would providing funding for the remainder…
Anti-Gay Westboro Leader Fred Phelps Has Extensive FBI File
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fred Phelps, the founder of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, was no stranger to the FBI. In fact, The Hill reports that Phelps was “well known to the FBI,” according to his newly released 250-page bureau file. Phelps, who died in March 2014, first came on the FBI’s radar in 1967…
Top FBI Counterterrorism Official: ‘We’re losing the battle’ with ISIS
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s top counterterrorism official left no room for ambiguity about the frustrating battle to stop ISIS’ aggressive social media campaign: “We are losing the battle,” ABC News reports. The terror group “has proven dangerously competent like no other group before it at employing [online] tools for its nefarious strategy,” the…
Katie Pavlich: Real Reason FBI Director Wasn’t Invited to Summit on Combating Extremism
By Katie Pavlich The Hill The much-anticipated White House summit on combating generic extremism is over, and outside of a handful of feel-good statements and speeches, little was accomplished. A number of activists from various organizations were present for discussion, but one person was noticeably absent from the summit: FBI Director James Comey. The FBI…
FBI Arrests 3 Brooklyn Men For Allegedly Plotting To Join ISIS In Syria
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday arrested three Brooklyn men accused of planning to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism, the bureau announced Wednesday. If their plans with ISIS didn’t work out, two of them intended to launch terror attacks in New York, the federal government alleged in a complaint unsealed in…
FBI Arrests 3 Brooklyn Men Accused of Planning to Join ISIS
The FBI on Wednesday arrested three Brooklyn men accused of planning to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism, the bureau announced Wednesday. If their plans with ISIS didn’t work out, two of them intended to launch terror attacks in New York, the federal government alleged in a complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn….
FBI Offers $3M Reward for Information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminal
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering some serious cash for information leading to the arrest of the bureau’s most wanted cyber criminal. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 31, is accused of hacking 1 million computers in the U.S. and internationally. Newsweek reports that the FBI is offering $3 million for information on capturing Bogachev, who…
‘Jihadi John’ Identified As London Resident with Computer Programming Degree
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com His face covered in a black balaclava, “Jihadi John” is the menacing figure seen in Islamic State videos beheading several foreign hostages. The New York Times reports this morning that the man has been identified as British resident Mohammed Emwazi, a graduate of the University of Westminster with a degree in…