By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Apple’s privacy features on the new iPhone and iPad protect pedophiles, terrorists and other criminals because investigators can’t access the information, FBI Director James Comey said. The new encryption scrambles information as it travels through Apple services. Comey isn’t happy about that. “The notion that people have devices… that with court…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said it’s important that the government have the authority to access any American’s phone, he said in a “60 Minutes” interview. The New York Daily News reports that Comey struck a balanced tone, saying he also thought it was important for Americans to be “deeply skeptical” of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Does ISIS have the resources to strike the U.S.? FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that the terrorist organization has shown no “capacity or resources” to pull off such an attack, the Courier-Journal reports. Comey dismissed suggestions that the Obama administration missed the emergence of ISIS. “From the FBI’s perspective, I…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said he knows the identities of roughly a dozen Americans fighting alongside terrorists in Syria, Bloomberg reports. Comey said the bureau is prepared to track the U.S. citizens if they return. “Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport’s revoked, is entitled to come back,” Comey said in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey knows a thing or two about being a victim of a crime. While a high school senior, Comey was held captive in his Allendale, New Jersey home by a notorious criminal known as “Ramsey rapist” in 1977. Comey made the comments on “60 Minutes” while talking about…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The masked executioner shown on video beheading two American journalists and a British aid worker has been identified by the FBI, the New York Daily News reports. “I believe we have identified him,” Director James Comey said Thursday. The FBI didn’t disclose the name of the militant, who has a British…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said he’s worried that more Americans are at risk of being kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, CBS News reports. “We are deeply concerned about the safety and security of American citizens worldwide,” Comey said in his written testimony ahead of a hearing in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks, FBI Director James Comey pledged to continue fighting terrorism as the bureau’s top priority, the Arizona Republic reports. “We made a promise to the American people 13 years ago … that we would do everything we can…
