By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been operating a fleet of small planes equipped with video and occasionally cell phone surveillance technology, concealing the information from the public by registering the aircraft under fictitious company names, the Associated Press has found. What’s more, the surveillance is often used without a judge’s approval. The AP…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who leaked information to the Associated Press was sentenced Thursday to about three-and-a-half years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, the AP reports. Donald Sachteren, 55, was accused of disclosing intelligence about the U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012. The discovery prompted feds to seize phone…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The discovery that feds were spying on the Associated Press has had a “chilling effect” on the news agency, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter said, the U.S. News reports. Reporter Martha Mendoza called the snooping “a massive and unprecedented intrusion” into the reporting of more than 20 reporters, the U.S. News wrote….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion,” the Justice Department covertly collected two months of telephone records from reporters and editors at the Associated Press, CNN reports. The records came from the work and person phone numbers reporters and other at the AP. It’s uncertain what officials are looking for, but one…
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…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI excoriated members of the media after false reports began circulating that an arrest was made in the Boston Marathon bombings, the New York Times reports. Agents said the city faulty reporting could lead to “unintended consequences” for the massive investigation. Several news organizations, including the Associated Press, Fox News, CNN…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And as if the agent needed another reason to get a divorce. The Associated Press reports that authorities charged the husband of an FBI agent of setting her bureau car on fire with her weapons inside at their Portland, Ore. home. AP reported that authorities alleged that David Powers, 44, set…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com According to an AP survey of the nation’s leading states in meth production, lab seizures by law enforcement agencies rose nationally, the AP reports. In 2011 Missouri was the leading producer, with 2,096 seizures. Missouri was followed by Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and then Oklahoma. Across the nation the rise in meth…
