Judge Rips FBI for Failing to Record 6-Hour Interrogation of Terror Suspect
The FBI interrogated an Everett terror suspect for six hours without recording the interaction.
The FBI interrogated an Everett terror suspect for six hours without recording the interaction.
David Fry, one of the final holdouts in the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, was questioned by the FBI despite his court-appointed attorney objecting to an interrogation.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Overturning an FBI policy that is as old as the bureau, the Justice Department is now requiring the FBI in most cases to make audio or video recordings while interrogating suspects in custody, the Arizona Republic reports. Since the FBI’s creation in 1908, agents have been barred from making audio recordings of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s interrogation of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev violated his rights while he he lay in pain in a hospital bed immediately following his arrest, his defense lawyers argued in court documents Wednesday. The Chicago Tribune reports that FBI agents ignored Tsarnaev’s 10 requests for a lawyer even though authorities…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Ohio man was interrogated for an hour after he was spotted wearing Goggle Glass at a movie theater. The Business Insider reports that the glasses caused alarm at the AMC theater, where employees believed he was illegally taping the film. The man, who has not been identified, tried telling authorities that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A high-ranking FBI agent made a series of baffling mistakes. For one, the agent filed a sensitive internal manual about secret interrogation practices with the Library of Congress, which means anyone with library card get access it without any redactions, Mother Jones reports. While the manual sat in a public The ACLU…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. citizen claims in a lawsuit filed by the federal government that he was held for four months, endured harsh interrogation and was later released after it was discovered he had done nothing wrong, the Reason reports. Amir Meshal is represented by he ACLU, which contends its client was unfairly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Abdulbaki Todashev raised a photo of his dead son during a news conference Tuesday and pledged to uncover the truth behind Ibragim Todashev’s death during an FBI interrogation, The Guardian reports. Todashev hired two prominent civil rights attorneys in Florida to determine what prompted the death of his 27-year-old son, who was…