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FBI: ISIS Is Recruiting Teenagers from U.S. to Join Widening Terror Campaign
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The terrorist group, ISIS, is recruiting teenagers in the U.S. as part of a broadening campaign of violence, a top FBI official told CNN. Michael Steinbach, head of the FBI’s counterterrorist division, said the teenagers are as young as 15. He said he “can’t speak with 100% certainty that individuals of…
FBI to Allow Companies to Reveal When They Receive National Security Letters
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies like Google and Microsoft have long expressed frustration with the inability to disclose when they’ve received a secretive compliance order from the FBI seeking records. Under a new FBI policy, companies will be able to disclose the “national security letters,” but only “at the earlier of three years after the…
Defiant Justice Department Attorneys Target California Marijuana Dispensary
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal appeals court wants to know why the Justice Department was targeting a popular marijuana dispensary after the federal government said it would not intervene in states’ medicinal pot laws, The Associated Press reports. “The United States government, the president and the attorney general and the justice department is largely…
Border Patrol Agents Say Gun Shortage Forces Them to Share Rifles
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gun shortage at the Border Patrol has forced about 400 agents to share 100 rifles, one agent told Fox News. That means agents aren’t able to calibrate their weapon. “We are left to check out rifles that were unzeroed to us,” a border patrol agent told FoxNews.com. “This practice needs…
Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Charged Accused of Taking People Hostage, Shooting 1
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Border Patrol agent accused of taking two people hostage was arrested Tuesday after an intense standoff that lasted several hours, the El Paso Times reports. Alberto Montelongo, 40, was involved in a domestic dispute with another off-duty Border Patrol agent, authorities said. Another man, who is not an agent,…
Judge: FBI Agents Should Not Have Posed As Internet Technicians in Gambling Probe
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI crossed the line when agents cut off the Internet connection at a Las Vegas luxury villa and then posed as repairmen in order to access information from the computers of people suspected of running illegal betting operations, a federal magistrate said, Bloomberg reports. U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen said…
Ex-Miami Cop Charged with Extortion for Alleged Role in Illegal Gambling Ring
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Miami Police officer accused of protecting an illegal gambling operation in exchange for cash was charged Monday with two counts of extortion, the FBI announced. Jerry Sutherland, 28, also is accused of “facilitating the theft of proceeds from a gambling operations.” The investigation was handled by the FBI Miami…
Defense: FBI Induced Man to Plot Suicide Bombing at Wichita Airport
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Terry Lee Loewen is accused of plotting a suicide bombing at a Wichita airport, but his attorneys said the idea originated from an FBI agent who radicalized their client and then induced him to follow through with an attack, the Associated Press reports. Loewen was arrested during a sting operation in…