Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Facing mounting pressure to explain how the Boston Marathon bombers eluded suspicion, the FBI concluded Thursday that there was nothing the agency could do to prevent the attacks, the New York Times reports. The FBI conducted server internal reviews of the bureau’s handling of Russian intelligence that warned the U.S. about one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Of all the ways to describe Edward Snowden, former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden may have come up with the most incendiary. In an interview with Financial Review, an Austrian publication, Hayden compared Snowden to the Boston Marathon bombers. “I don’t think Snowden spied for the money, and he probably did…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev yawned Wednesday as he pleaded not guilty on 30 charges in federal court, the New York Daily News reports. At times, the 19-year-old appeared to be fidgety; other times he appeared to be nonchalant, the News wrote. One victim expressed feeling uneasy at the hearing. “It…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston and pleaded not guilty. It was his first appearance since he was arrested in April. Tsarnaev was charged in a a 30-count indictment in connection to the April 15 bombing and subsequent manhunt. The charges are…
By Denver Post Editorial Board The clouds of conflicting stories surrounding the police killing of a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects need to be cleared, officially and with some dispatch. While we understand there are ongoing investigations into the shooting of Ibragim Todashev during questioning, authorities should quickly release an explanation…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Boston Marathon Bombing suspects planned to detonate the devices on July 4 but opted for the race because that’s when they finished making the explosives, the USA Today reports. During a hospital interview with the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suggested the brothers finished making the bomb sooner than they had expected…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After 16 hours of interrogations in a hospital, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect stopped talking when a federal magistrate read him his miranda rights for the first time Monday, Newsday reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being questioned under a public-safety exception that does not require law enforcement to read suspects their miranda…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved out of a Boston hospital and taken to the Federal Medical Center in Ft. Devens, a U.S. Marshals Service said, NPR reports. “The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental…
