By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com New documents have been obtained by the ACLU which Salon.com said over the weekend point to the FBI’s use of “industrial scale racial profiling.” The documents are related to an FBI program that used demographic information to map ethnic and racial communities and the criminal activities related to each group,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com LA County Sheriff Lee Bacca won’t be winning any managerial or humanitarian awards any time soon. Ticklethewire.com has reported on Baca before. He has been accused of allowing a culture of violence and inmate abuse run rampant in LA prisons. And the Sheriff previously expressed anger that the FBI smuggled a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As recently as 2009, the FBI was presenting materials about Islam to new recruits that former agent Mike German thought was a little shocking and might lead to abuse, according to the website Talking Points Memo. “Certainly I was concerned with the approach the FBI was taking post-9/11, which is why…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Granted, the irony is rich. But ex-Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay, a President Bush appointee, says he has his reasons for joining a coalition that’s pushing an initiative to legalize marijuana in the state of Washington. McKay, 55, contends that criminalizing marijuana creates a black market that benefits international cartels and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– I have mixed feelings about the White House proposal to have FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III stay two years more beyond his 10-year term, which expires in September. The opinions of newspaper editorial boards around the country reflect my ambivalence. All recognize the need for continuity in such…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 31-year-old Illinois man claims the FBI said it could remove him from the no-fly list if he agreed to go undercover at mosques, the Associated Press reported. He refused the offer. AP reported that Abe Mashal, a dog trainer from St. Charles, Ill., says the bureau said he landed on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ACLU and a Muslim group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court against the FBI and seven of its agents, alleging that a paid bureau informant violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of Muslims when he infiltrated a California mosque and indiscriminately conducted surveillance, the Washington Post reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — When it comes to listening in on conversations or reading emails, the feds have repeatedly violated legal limits of surveillance of U.S. citizens, the Washington Post reports. The Post reports that the conclusion comes from the release of 900 pages of documents obtained by the ACLU in a court…
