By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been operating a fleet of small planes equipped with video and occasionally cell phone surveillance technology, concealing the information from the public by registering the aircraft under fictitious company names, the Associated Press has found. What’s more, the surveillance is often used without a judge’s approval. The AP…
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 Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently people pointing lasers is becoming a growing problem. In response, the FBI on Tuesday announced a pilot program in 12 field offices that will offer up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of people who aim handheld lasers at aircrafts. The program will run for 60…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is getting dragged into a controversy over Attorney General Eric Holder using FBI aircraft. CNN reports that the FBI on Friday said it will respond to questions from Congress on the use of aircraft. Allegations have surfaced that Holder may have been among officials who used the planes for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Colombian drug lord Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, designated by the Justice Department as one of “the world’s most significant drug kingpins”, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York to 30 years in prison, authorities announced. Gonzalez Uribe, 44, was arrested in 2009 in the Dominican Republic and pleaded guilty…
Is an irate mother aboard a plane who spanks her child a terrorist? Are the feds going too far charging people on planes with acts of terrorism? Could be. By Ralph Vartabedian and Peter Pae Los Angeles Times Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City — Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight…
