Days before the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele demanded the return of nine imprisoned MS-13 leaders from the United States.
The FBI has paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad employees to act as informants for a decade, much longer than previously reported.
Technicians for Best Buy’s “Geek Squad City” are being paid by the FBI as part of “a joint venture ferret out child porn,” according to claims in new federal documents.
The FBI was convinced during the Cold War that some science fiction writers were bent on crippling America and creating communist boogeymen by frightening readers with futuristic stories.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is accused of removing people from the no-fly list in exchange for becoming informants. Al Jazeera America reports that four law-abiding Muslim men were removed from the no-fly list just days before a federal district court in New York hears their case. According to their lawsuit, Tanvir v. Lynch,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fearing the Soviet Union was planning to attack Alaska in the 1950s, the FBI trained Alaskan residents so become informant behind enemy lines, according to declassified documents, reports RT.com. The initiative did not include women or native people, like the Native Americans. At the time, the FBI feared that the Soviet…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI allowed its informants to break the law , all in the name of fighting crime. According to the Final Call the FBI permitted nearly 6,000 violations of the law by informants. That’s a 5% hike over the previous year. The law violations range from acts of violence to using drugs and bribing…
By Brad Heath USA Today WASHINGTON — The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents that show just how often the nation’s top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime. The U.S. Justice Department ordered the FBI…
