By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and National Security Administration are on the verge of losing surveillance powers that were gained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Authorities for both agencies are urging lawmakers to preserve the spy powers before the expire June 1, The Guardian reports. Some members of Congress want more surveillance reforms…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA and Justice Department have been secretly amassing logs of nearly all international phone calls that originated from the U.S., the USA Today reports. The collection of billions of calls came nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The government has tracked calls to as many as 116…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who was killed after crashing a stolen SUV outside of the National Security Agency has a criminal history and has been identified. The Washington Post reports that the suspect was Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27. He is accused of smashing a police cruiser with a stolen Ford Escape. The Post…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI does not believe an attack at the guarded gates of the NSA on Monday was terrorism. The bureau is investigating after two men who were allegedly dressed as women disobeyed commands at the gates of the NSA in Fort Meade, Md., crashing a stolen car into a police vehicle,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the FBI blamed North Korea for the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November based on information that was collected when the NSA hacked into the country’s computer systems in 2010, the New York Times reports. The NSA eventually was able to penetrate directly into North Korea’s system…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been quietly using information gathered during warrantless NSA surveillance to comb through emails belonging to foreigners to assist in investigations, the New York Times reports. The Times discovered the FBI was gathering copies of unprocessed communications that were received without a warrant. The Inspector General report commended the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government has been spying on law-abiding Muslim Americans, according to the latest documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The Intercept reports that new documents show the targets of the surveillance included lawyers, academics, civil rights activists, and a political candidate who “have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Democratic senators are accusing the Obama administration of trying to “ignore or justify” factual misrepresentations to the Supreme Court about warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency. The New York Times reports that the senators, Mark Udall of Colorado and Ryan Wyden of Oregon, complained in a letter to Solicitor General…
