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Fox News: Surveillance of Americans Violates Constitution, Reduces Our Free Choices
By Judge Andrew Napolitano Fox News Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to…
Former Teacher on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List Pleads Guilty to Pornography
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eric Toth, a 31-year-old former teacher and camp counselor, was described as “every parent’s worst nightmare,” Reuters reports. But in 2008, he fled the Washington area when authorities began investigating claims that he possessed child pornography on a camera at the private Beauvoir School. Toth was captured a year after he was…
FBI Searches for Human Remains at Industrial Area Owned by Anatomy Expert
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The FBI is searching for bone fragments and other human remains at an industrial area on Detroit’s east side, WXYZ reports. Crews in HAZMAT suits searched the area Thursday and plan to resume today. WXYZ conjectured that it’s possible that human body parts were being sold but provided no evidence…
Drug Seizures Double Since Venezuela Kicked Out the DEA in 2005
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Venezuelan authorities are seizing far more drugs every year since the government broke ties with the DEA in 2005, the Venezuelan Analysis reports. Since 2005, the Venezuelan government has seized 462 tons of illegal drugs – or twice the amount seized under a partnership with the country in the seven years prior…
Washington Post: Ex-FBI Agent Who Disappeared in Iran Was on Rogue Mission for CIA
By Adam Goldman Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — An American man who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency. Bob Levinson, an ex-FBI agent, traveled to the…
FBI Agents Association Throws Weight Behind Bipartisan Spending Plan
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to avoid further cutbacks, the FBI Agents Association is showing its support for a bipartisan spending plan that would avoid more than $700 million in additional sequestration reductions, NPR reports. The plan, while not ideal for the cash-strapped agency, was announced Tuesday by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democratic…
Son Learns His Long-Lost Mom Likely Was Killed by Serial Killer Israel Keyes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Feldman lost track of his mother about five years ago. The New Jersey mom had chronic drug problems, and her son believed she was in a witness protection program. Then the FBI told him recently that his mother likely was yet another victim of serial killer Israel Keyes, who is…
J. Edgar Hoover Delivered Order to Ignore Democrat After His Critical Comments
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t known for messing around. When U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks criticized the FBI director during a background interview for a potential judicial nominee in 1958, Hoover laid down the law – his version of it. “He is to be ignored,” Hoover wrote of the Texas Democrat in a June…