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Newt Gingrich to Get Secret Service Protection
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It took a while. CBS News reports that presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will be getting Secret Service protection just like Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. The network pointed out that Ron Paul is now the only candidate left who doesn’t have the Secret Service protection. Gingrich, who has been fading in…
Hacker Helped FBI Break Big Case With Anonymous
By Donna Leinwand Leger USA TODAY An influential computer hacker turned FBI informant led investigators to his former accomplices, helping federal agents make their first significant crack into Anonymous, a cybergroup that attacks corporate and government websites. Four members of the international computer hacking group LulzSec were charged Tuesday with a worldwide conspiracy after the…
Obama Orders Atty. Gen. Holder to Investigate Oil Price Speculation
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday at a press conference that Attorney General Eric Holder will reconstitute the Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group to probe the rising prices at the gas pumps around the nation. The move comes amid a consensus that speculation is what has driven the cost…
Texas Financier R. Allen Stanford Convicted in $7 Billion Fraud
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com All the riches in the world, and no where to go but prison. A fed jury in Houston on Tuesday convicted wealthy Texan R. Allen Stanford,61, on 13 of 14 counts that involved allegations that he ran a $7 billion fraud through an offshore bank, the Houston Chronicle reported. Family members…
FBI Announces $1 Million Reward to Help Find Ex-FBI Agent Who Vanished in Iran in 2007
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the five-year anniversary of his disappearance– which happens to be this week — the FBI is offering a $1 million reward and is launching a publicity campaign in Asia to try to locate and bring home ex-FBI agent Robert A. Levinson, who vanished while on business in Iran. The…
TSA’s John Pistole Talks About Airport Security
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ATF’s #2 Says Agency Mistakenly Used Drug Strategy in Operation Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The number two person at ATF says a key mistake in the controversial Operation Fast and Furious was that “a narcotics based strategy was applied to a firearms trafficking investigation.” Tom Brandon, who stepped in last October as ATF’s deputy director as part of an effort to clean house after…
Holder Probes NYPD’s Surveillance of Muslims; Some Muslims Support the Spying
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com In a new twist in an ongoing controversy, Muslim groups on Monday gathered in Manhattan to thank the New York Police Department for surveilling Muslims in two New Jersey cities and 16 college campuses, NorthJersey.com reported. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, the president of the American Islamic Foundation, who attended a rally…