Twitter Becomes FBI’s Most Effective Informant As ISIS Supporters Take to Social Media
One of the FBI’s most effective informants in the crackdown against terrorism has been Twitter.
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FBI Faces Enormous Hurdles in Crackdown Against Proliferation of Hackers
Cyber security experts are facing incredible hurdles as they try to crack down on an increasing number of hackers worldwide.
FBI Accelerates Terrorism Arrests After ISIS Concerns But Risks Rushing Cases
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fears of an ISIS-inspired attack has prompted the FBI to accelerate the arrests of terrorism suspects, not unlike after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Trouble is, many of the terrorism suspicions immediately following the 2001 attacks were unfounded, and some cases went nowhere, The New York Times reports. As a result,…
FBI Raids Home of Widow, 6 Children During Chattanooga Shooting Probe
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez has taken agents to an apartment complex for a raid at the home of a widowed woman and her six children, The Times Free Press reports. Agents said they were acting on a lead about an associate of Abdulazeez’s. The widow, Alexis Tubbs, said…
Middle School Teacher Accused of Watching Live-Streaming Sex Shows Involving Children
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A middle school teacher in Massachusetts was arrested Tuesday for allegedly paying for live-streaming sex shows involving children in the Philippines. WCVB reports that Scott Peeler, 53, who works for Southbridge Public Schools, faces charges of attempting to entice and coerce a minor to engage in sexual activity and receipt of…
FBI, ATF Join Investigation of Spate of Suspicious Fires at Black Churches
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and ATF are helping local authorities investigate a string of recent suspicious fires at black churches in the south. The church fires broke out in four states, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Three of the four were determined to be arsons, and the other is under investigation,…
FBI Looking at Similarities of Women Killed Or Missing from Ohio Town
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents who are investigating a possible serial killer are looking at similarities in the lives of he six women who have been found dead or have gone missing in a small Ohio town, a former agent told ABC News. ABC discovered that most of the women “ran in the same…
State AG: NSA Officers Did Nothing Wrong by Shooting Transgender Women Outside Agency
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA officers did nothing wrong when they shot and killed a transgender woman outside of a security gate at the entrance of the agency in Fort Meade, Md., the Washington Post reports. The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said no evidence of a crime agains the officers were was found. “Federal prosecutors…