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Washington Post Editorial: Has FBI Lost Focus on Real Bad Guys?
Editorial Board Washington Post Law Enforcement agencies can’t be expected to stop every terrorist attack, any more than they can prevent every mass shooting. If, as most investigators now appear to believe, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acted on their own with a bomb design downloaded from the Internet, their plot posed a steep challenge…
FBI Searches Martial Arts Studio in Mississippi in Search of Ricin Evidence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents investigating who sent ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and other officials searched a martial arts studio in Mississippi on Wednesday after prosecutors dropped charges against the original suspect, CNN reports. Wearing hazardous materials suits, agents also searched the home of James Everett Dutschke on Tuesday after charges were dismissed against…
FBI Investigates Who Hacked AP Twitter Feed with Bogus News about White House Explosions
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine how a hacker or hackers were able to send out a bogus tweet that President Obama was injured in a White House bombing using the Associated Press’ Twitter feed, Reuters reports. The tweet caused markets to nosedive briefly and sent some people into panic. The AP…
Border Patrol Gets New Chief for Tucson Sector
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Manuel Padilla Jr., a native of southern Arizona and long-time federal authority, has been appointed chief of the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Padilla, who has worked with Border Patrol for 26 years, was serving as the acting chief at the office since October 2012; before that…
Fed Judge Skeptical of Justice Dept. Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit in Fast and Furious Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A fed judge in D.C. appeared skeptical of the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit centering on the poorly thought out ATF operation known as Fast and Furious, according to the Associated Press. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has filed a lawsuit seeking records related to the operation….
Boston Bombing Suspect Tells Investigators that He and Brother Acted Alone
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The plan to set off bombs at the Boston Marathon wasn’t hatched until about a week before the event, the surviving suspect told investigators Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Writing from his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said he and his brother acted alone and were not trained by outsider terrorist groups,…
Charges Dismissed Against Mississippi Man Accused of Sending Ricin-Tainted Letters to President, Others
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charges have been dropped against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and other public officials, NBC News reports. “I respect President Obama and love my country. I would never do anything to pose a threat to him or any other U.S. official,” Paul Kevin Curtis said at a news…
Female Prison Guards Charged in Smuggling Case with Baltimore Jail Gang
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Thirteen female guards are accused in a federal indictment of working with an inmate gang to smuggle drugs and other banned items into a Baltimore jail, the USA Today reports. Four of those women were impregnated by the leader of the gang, the . Inmates and the guards were charged with racketeering,…