By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are trying to determine how a small gyrocopter managed to fly unnoticed to the lawn of the Capitol in Washington. A Florida postal carrier was charged Thursday with crimes related to flying the plane through protected airspace, The Chicago Tribune reports. Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson said the gyrocopter “literally…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has monitored 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell for months because of troubling posts he made on social media about violent jihad. Then agents swept in Wednesday, arresting him in Cincinnati on allegations that he was about to hatch a horrifying attack at the U.S. Capitol, detonating pipe bombs and then…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The battle to attract the new FBI headquarters is blossoming. The Examiner reports that Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Virginia endorsed a site adjacent to the Franconia/Springfield Metro station as a potential new location. The current FBI building in D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, several blocks from the Capitol, is…
