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FBI Planes That Are Flying Over Boston Appear to be Conducting Surveillance
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Residents have been reporting suspicious, loud and low-flying aircraft in the Boston area since last month. Turns out, the small planes belong to the FBI, the Business Insider reports. While the FBI won’t comment on the planes, which include a Cessna 208 carrying registration N1132F, Cessna 206H N309JK, and Cessna 182s N859JA…
FBI Agents Return to Tsarnaev Family Home Sunday As Funeral Planned for Older Brother
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents armed with search warrants returned to the Tsarnaev family’s home in Cambridge Sunday, the Boston Herald reports. The brothers’ uncle also visited a Worcester funeral home to prepare for the older sibling’s burial. The FBI was tight-lipped about the search. “We are conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of…
New York Daily News: FBI Mishandled Boston Marathon Bombing Case
Opinion New York Daily News The FBI’s dereliction in failing to instantly notify Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that the Boston Marathon bombers planned to attack New York was irresponsible, unforgivable, terrifying and grounds for overhauling its anti-terror protocols. The bureau allowed well more than 48 hours to pass before sending word that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had…
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…
NPR: How Technology Helped FBI Agents Track Down Bombing Suspects
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Technology has come a long way since Atlanta’s Olympic Park bombing nearly 17 years ago, NPR explains in an audio cast. The FBI examined more than 10 terabytes of video and images from the Boston Marathon bombing. To put that into perspective, it would take one person more than five years to…
ATF Plays Big Role in Boston Marathon Attack But Gets Little Respect from Congress
Columnist Joe Davidson Wall Street Journal This time it’s Boston. As they did with bombings in New York City and Oklahoma City, and many lesser-known crimes every day in cities all over the country, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, better known as ATF, rushed to the scene. Their specialized expertise…
Head of FBI’s Boston Office Worked Way Up Bureau Investigating Foreign Spies
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As special agent in charge of FBI’s Boston office, Richard DesLauriers is leading the joint investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks. The 52-year-old Massachusetts native doesn’t have a long track record of busting terrorists, but colleagues told Time magazine DesLauriers is a driven, professional and skilled investigator who cut his teeth…