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FBI Visits Widow of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect at New Hampshire Home
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents Monday visited the Rhode Island home of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s and left with several bags. Katherine Russell married Tsarnaev three years ago and was reportedly questioned about how much she knew about the attack. “The FBI is there as part of our ongoing investigation, but we aren’t…
Former Ricin Suspect Wants Feds to Clean Up His House After Intrusive Search
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Kevin Curtis has had a rough month. First he was charged with mailing ricin-laced letters to President Obama and two other officials. Now, his attorney said, Curtis’ home is uninhabitable after a thorough search of his Mississippi house turned up no evidence of ricin, the Associated Press reports. Now that the charges…
Islam Convert Denies Radicalizing Older Brother in Boston Marathon Bombings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of radicalizing the older brother in the Boston Marathon bombings denied any wrongdoing and said he would never condone a terrorist attack, the Washington Times reports. Mikhail Allakhverdov, 39, a convert to Islam, denied allegations leveled by relatives of Tamerian Tsarnaev. “I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been…
New Bipartisan Proposal Would Add Unarmed Drones to Examine Borders
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. government would rely heavily on drones to inspect the borders under a new bipartisan proposal to reform immigration, the Medill News Service reports. The unarmed drones are considered to be more effective and efficient than helicopters Critics charge the drones are anything but. “There’s been no evidence that (drones) have…
Internet Companies Like Google Could Face Fines for Refusing to Comply with Wiretap Orders
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies that refuse to comply with wiretap orders would be penalized under FBI-backed legislation that is being drawn up by a government task force, RT reports. That means companies like Google and Facebook would be fined tens of thousands of dollars a day for refusing to cooperate. “We don’t have the ability…
Sen. Graham Blames Information Sharing on Failure to Detect Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham sharply criticized law enforcement’s information-sharing system during the probe into the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, Business Insider reports. Graham said the system should have picked up on the suspicious activity of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Graham also urged federal agencies to “up our game.” “When one of these…
U.S. Rep. King Blames Russia Over Communicating Radicalization of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Peter King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Russia should have informed Washington D.C. about the radicalization of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and his mother, the Associated Press reports. The New York Republican said better communication “definitely would have caused the investigation to go…
FBI Explores “Persons of Interest” in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating “persons of interest” in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, the Washington Post reports. “There are persons of interest in the United States,” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, told ABC News. “We’re looking at phone calls before and after the bombing, this…