By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone call records violated the constitutional rights of Americans, alleges the Human Rights Watch in a lawsuit against the agency. Forbes reports that the suit comes just a day after a USA Today report on the surveillance program. The DEA reportedly amassed billions of phone…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former chief of the Knoxville FBI office is suing the bureau and the Justice Department for $2.5 million, saying he was falsely accused of violating the law for accepting a position as the senior counterintelligence officer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Oak Ridge field…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What do airport screeners look for when they are trying to detect suspicious behavior? The suggestions are part of the TSA’s controversial behavior-detection program, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, which outlines suspicious actions. Although the TSA considers the list of behaviors to be confidential, it was posted online. The ACLU, which…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura M. Laughlin, the former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle office before abruptly resigning last year, has dismissed her lawsuit against the bureau and Justice Department, King 5 News reports. Laughlin filed a federal lawsuit in 2011, claiming she faced sex discrimination and retaliation. “As the agent in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida-based Muslim advocacy group is suing the FBI after an agent fatally shot Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen national who was friends with one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, The Boston Herald reports. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is suing for $30 million in the wrongful death lawsuit. “We are…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A computer programmer who was wrongfully convicted of stealing trading codes from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2009 is suing the FBI agents who helped put him in prison, Bloomberg reports. Sergey Aleynikov, who inspired Michael Lewis’s best-seller “Flash Boys,” claims in the lawsuit that agents violated his constitutional against unreasonable…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A drug smuggler mauled by a Border Patrol dog while trying to bring drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border is suing the federal government, The Week reports. Jose Manual Marino-Najera, 31, said he crossed the border into Arizona and fell asleep under a tree when the dog mauled him. The lawsuit claims…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Should the name of a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a Mexican teen be released to the public? A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Thursday from the family of the teen who wants the agent to be identified, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The mother of Jose…
