By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a bomb threat made in a tweet that prompted the U.S. military to send F-16 fighter aircraft to escort two jets bound for Atlanta on Saturday, the Associated Press reports. The threats involved a Southwest Airlines flight from Milwaukee and a Delta Air Lines flight from Portland,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com During a visit to the FBI’s Jacksonville field office, Director James Comey delivered a warning about social media. “You have a feeling you’re safe and alone in your kitchen, when you’re actually out wandering all over the world,” Comey said about the availability of personal information on social media, First Coast…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI issued a strong warning Sunday that ISIS and other terrorist groups want to target military members where they live in the U.S., ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security issued a join intelligence bulletin, urging military members to remove anything from their social media accounts that would bring…
The Justice Department isn’t exactly having trouble finding fraud in the military.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are finding success with surveillance balloons that hover high above the Rio Grande and can zoom in on a license plate from miles away, the Valley Morning Star reports. Border Patrol officials said more balloons are possible to keep more eyes in the sky. The balloons are stationed…
Trevor Timm The Guardian For three weeks and counting, America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones – it was all enough to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI was transformed into a counterterrorism organization, sending its agents to Iraq and Afghanistan for hundreds of raids. The Washington Post reports on a controversial, effective and little-known alliance between the FBI and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Some in the bureau questioned…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department filed suit against Georgia and its chief election official to ensure that residents who are in the military overseas can vote in the state’s Aug. 21 federal primary election, the federal government announced today. The suit was filed because Georgia wasn’t planning to send absentee ballots to service members…
