A leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division was sentenced to seven years in prison for plotting to threaten and intimidate journalists and advocates who worked to expose his anti-Semitism.
The FBI and local police nabbed a man they believe was plotting to detonate explosives in Times Square.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The attack on a military camp in Chattanooga was a stark reminder that not even America’s rural areas are safe from terrorist attacks. It’s why every FBI field office nationwide has a joint terrorism task force, reports ABC 30. To combat the threat in Alabama, Chris Hoffman, Supervisory Special Agent for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will take the helm at the FBI’s Oregon office on Monday. Bretzing will become special agent in charge after serving as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past 18 months. Bretzing, 47, also supervised a joint terrorism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Detroit’s FBI division has a new leader. Paul M. Abbate, who has a background in counterterrorism, will replace Robert Foley, who announced plans to step down in August after a year on the job. The appointment was first reported by ticklethewire.com and Deadline Detroit. Fox 2 reports that Abbate most recently was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barry Walter Bojul’s trip to Yemen has been detoured, possibly by as much as 20 years in a federal prison. The 30-year-old Texan’s conviction in a Houston federal court on Monday was the culmination of an investigation that began in 2009 by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was convicted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The San Francisco Police Department becomes the second major police force in the nation in recent months to place limits on what its officers can do as members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Following Portland, Oregon’s lead, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the San Francisco police chief…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Sunday stepped up its nationwide hunt for a 65-year-old, tattooed man suspected of placing a crude bomb at the Southeast Plaza Mall in Jefferson County, Colo. last Wednesday. The bomb never detonated. The Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force released five additional photographs of suspect Earl Albert Moore, who…
