Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man with a second-grade reading level and a low IQ was acquitted in an ATF sting operation because he was entrapped, a jury decided. The jury acquitted Alexis Davis on two counts agreeing that the ATF entrapped the man by “pressing” him to break the law. Had the ATF not encouraged…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department used questionable tactics to identify and prosecute terrorism suspects, a new human rights report offers, the Washington Post reports. Human Rights Watch offered a scathing assessment of the FBI and Justice Department, which are accused of injecting fear into some Muslim communities because of the use of surveillance and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new documentary, “The Newburgh Sting,” chronicles the story of four New York men who were snared by the FBI in a terrorism scheme, the New York Daily News reports. The film, which airs today on HBO, tells the story of four Muslim converts who joined an FBI-fabricated plot to bomb synagogues…
By Washington Times Editorial Board When President Obama rewrote inconvenient parts of his very own Obamacare law, he undermined more than health care. The attitude of “we can do what we want” trickles down to the lowliest federal agencies. That’s what several federal judges are saying about the schemes of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
Mercury News Opinion by Fadi A. Saba The Federal Bureau of Investigation a track record of attacking the undesirables of the time. In the early part of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy were the focus; in the 1940s, it was Japanese-Americans; in the 1950s, it was Americans who questioned U.S. foreign policy; in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethethewire.com Investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson has caused quite a stir since the release of his new book, “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.” Claiming in his book that most terrorism suspects could never have carried out an attack without the help of the FBI, Aaronson spoke at length with…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you believe, Matthew Aaron Llaneza was either bent on committing terrorism in the name of Allah or was psychotic and easily manipulated by the FBI, the Mercury News reports. The 28-year-old San Jose is accused of trying to detonate what turned out to be a phony bomb Friday in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A month before Sami Samir Hassoun placed what he thought was a bomb near Wrigley Field in Chicago in 2010, the FBI worried the undercover informant had entrapped the suspect and warned the informant to back off, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that Hassoun’s defense attorney disclosed the information in…
