Records Reveal Geek Squads’ Relationship with FBI Is Deeper Than Previously Reported
The FBI has paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad employees to act as informants for a decade, much longer than previously reported.
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FBI Pays Best Buy Technicians to ‘Ferret Out Child Porn” on Computers
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.
FBI Believed Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury Was a Pinko Boogeyman
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.
FBI Accused of Using No-Fly List to Coerce Muslims into Becoming Informants
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,…
FBI Trained Alaskan Residents to Become Informants to FBI in Event of Invasion
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…
FBI Allowed Nearly 6,000 Crimes to Be Committed in 2012 – Up from Previous Year
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…
USA Today Exclusive: FBI Allowed Informants to Commit 5,600 Crimes
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…
FBI Paid Informants $500,000, Ignored Crimes in Weak Racketeering Case, Defense Lawyer Argued
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI spent more than $500,000 on informants and ignored their crimes to build a racketeering case that has “been on life support” for years, a veteran mob attorney said Monday, the Associated Press reports. During closing arguments for the trial involving La Cosa Nostra under reputed boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi,…
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