Homeland Security ‘Spilled’ Classified Information 100+ Times Last Year
Homeland Security “spilled” classified information more than 100 times lat year, and 40% of those breaches came from one office.
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Secret Service Furious Over Leaks to Media As Agency Struggles with Image
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Times are tense at the Secret Service. The Business Insider reports that “the normally tight-lipped agency is now consumed by an intense, high-level guessing game over who was motivated to leak information to the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig,” who first published accounts of misconduct at the agency. Secret Service officials are…
Justice Department Accuses Ferguson Officials of ‘Inappropriate Effort to Influence Opinion’
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department accused some Ferguson officials of leaking information to the media in an effort to support Officer Darren Wilson, the Los Angeles Times reports. In recent days, details of the investigation have appeared in local and national news coverage at a time when a grand jury decision is imminent…
Feds Misbehavin’ in 2013
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Every day, thousands of federal law enforcement agents wake up, grab their gun and badge and a cup of java, orange juice or tea and go out into the world to protect the public and enforce the laws. Unfortunately, every year, a few step over the line — way over the…
Ex-FBI Agent Sentenced to 3+ Years for Leaking Intelligence to AP
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who leaked information to the Associated Press was sentenced Thursday to about three-and-a-half years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, the AP reports. Donald Sachteren, 55, was accused of disclosing intelligence about the U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012. The discovery prompted feds to seize phone…
FBI Planted Informant Inside WikiLeaks for Information on the Secret-Revealing Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Icelandic man is the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks, a secret-revealing website. Wired.com reports that Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson was an informant for three months in 2011 when he worked for WikiLeaks and the FBI. Ticklethewire.com mistakenly printed that Julian Paul Assange was the informant. He reportedly received $5,000 for his undercover…
New Rules May Rein In Prosecutors in Leak Investigations
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics in leak cases, has opened internal discussions over tightening rules on when prosecutors may seek phone logs and other information that could identify reporters’ sources as he began a series of a meetings on Thursday with…
Justice Department Tracked Movements of Journalist, Obtained Telephone Records
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department tracked a journalist suspected of receiving secret material related to possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, The Washington Post reports. In addition to obtaining telephone records from James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News,, investigators used security badge access records to track the…