Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed Sunday that U.S. officials “want to kill me,” the Daily Mail reports. In an interview with a German TV station, Snowden cited an anonymous Pentagon official quoted as saying, “I would love to put a bullet in his head.” An NSA analyst was quoted as saying he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The contractor that vetted NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the Navy Yard shooter has cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars for unfinished background checks, the Washington Times reports, citing a Justice Department filing. In fact, investigators allege USIS received $11.7 million in performance awards from 2008 to 2010. But that work…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey can think of a few adjectives to describe NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but “whistleblower” and “hero” are not among them. NPR reports that Comey can’t understand why Snowden would be held up as a hero when all three branches of the U.S. government have approved surveillance of phone…
Fred Kaplan Slate I regard Daniel Ellsberg as an American patriot. I was one of the first columnists to write that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be fired for lying to Congress. On June 7, two days after the first news stories based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, I wrote a column airing (and endorsing)…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If NSA leaker Edward Snowden hopes to get clemency, it won’t be from Janet Napolitano, CNN reports. The Homeland Security secretary said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that Snowden caused significant damage to U.S. intelligence-gathering. Snowden is charged with three counts of violating the Espionage Act. OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Dallas County…
By Alan Stamm ticklethwire.com The FBI uses the news area of its website to post arrests, convictions, awards and requests for crime-solving tips. The most-viewed post of 2013, the bureau tells a journalism blogger, is a March 18 item offering a $5-million reward for help cracking a notorious 1990 art theft. The cold case…
By Judge Andrew Napolitano Fox News Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of America’s most wanted men is making ends meet working for a website in Russia, Reuters reports. Edward Snowden, who is on temporary asylum after escaping arrest in the U.S. for revealing confidential documents, landing a job at a “large Russian site.” Snowden is wanted by the U.S. for disclosing secret…
