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FBI Prohibited from Entering Libya to Arrest Terror Suspects
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Libyan government is barring the FBI from arresting suspects in last year’s deadly terror attack on the U.S. that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, CNN reports. A top State Department official delivered the news to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Republicans expressed shock that…
Navy Yard Shooter Sought Medical Treatment Before Shooting Rampage
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the days before he opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard this week, Aaron Alexis sought emergency treatment twice, Bloomberg reports. The 34-year-old Navy contractor, who had a history of mental illness, requested treatment for insomnia twice in the past month, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday. Authorities alerted the…
Justice Department Watchdogs Did Nothing to Investigate Complaints about NSA Surveillance
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When federal judges repeatedly complained about the government misleading them about NSA’s secret domestic surveillance, the Justice Department never sprang into action, the USA Today reports. According to the USA Today, newly released records show the Justice Department’s internal ethics watchdog never investigated allegations of the NSA having surveillance on Americans’ phone…
Audit: Justice Department Overstates Terrorism Conviction Statistics
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department grossly overstated the number of terrorism convictions and made other inaccuracies because of shoddy record keeping, a federal audit has found, the Washington Post reports. Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz concluded in a report that the federal agency, which has 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices, over-reported the number…
FBI: Windy City Became Murder Capital of U.S. in 2012
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chicago led the nation in the sheer number of murders last year with 500, eclipsing even New York, which has a much larger population. The FBI statistics released this week show that New York City had 419 murders, followed by Detroit with 386 and Philadelphia with 331 last year. But on a…
Washington Navy Yard Shooter Was ‘Wondering Around Looking for People to Shoot’
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was “wondering around looking for people to shoot” and didn’t appear to have specific targets, new FBI Director James Comey said, NPR reports. It was Comey’s first public comments since taking office this month. Comey said Alexis used a legally purchased sawed-off shotgun. When he ran…
Counterterrorism Expert Named as Head of FBI’s Chicago Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Holley, one of the FBI’s premier counterterrorism experts, was tapped to head the bureau’s Chicago office, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 55-year-old will join the Chicago office as the new Special Agent in Charge in October, the Sun-Times wrote. Holley worked in Chicago in the past as the office’s lead counterterrorism…
Former FBI Informant Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Same Crime He Was Helping Investigate
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college professor who was working as an FBI informant investigating mortgage fraud was sentenced to four years and four months in prison Thursdsay for hatching his own mortgage fraud scheme, The Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko asked for leniency but got none from U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. Tomko pleaded…