By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is searching for a Northeastern University graduate who is accused of trying to recruit ISIS members using social media, WHDH reports. Ahmad Abousamra, who is believed to be in Syria, has been added to the FBI’s met wanted terrorist list. Authorities fear Abousamra may be waging an aggressive social…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents threatened a woman with a Taser and knife after she questioned why she was stopped 40 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, she claims in a video distributed by the ACLU. U.S. citizen Clarisa Christiansen said she refused to exit her car until Border Patrol explained why…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators believe they were searching the wrong area for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The New York Times reports that authorities have moved the search area nearly 700 miles to the northeast after further radar analysis. Analysis of the radar shows the plane was traveling far faster than previously believed and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The owner of a California gun parts store is refusing to release the names of customers to federal agents, the Washington Times reports. Dimitrios Karras, who owns Ares Armor in Oceanside, insisted it was an invasion of privacy to hand over the identities of 5,000 customers who purchased gun parts. “They said…
By CNN Authorities including bomb experts searched an apartment in Revere, Massachusetts, and removed items, after two deadly bombs struck the Boston Marathon. But investigators remained mum about just how the search may be linked to the bombing investigation. A law enforcement official said the search was not a suggestion that police may have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been demanding that Google divulge account information of up to thousands of its users to authorities without warrants, Wired.com reports. Google revealed it has received numerous National Security Letters from the FBI since 2009. Those letters, which the FBI has abused in the past, are written demands to compel…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents searched the home of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack Wednesday morning and were spotted taking equipment from two SUVs at the residence early this morning, the Star Ledger reports. Trenton police helped the FBI execute the search warrant about 1 a.m., Trenton Police Lt. Don Fillinger told the Star Ledger. It…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now comes another story of the absurd involving the Transportation Security Administration, the folks who protect our airports. The News Herald reports that a woman filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother, who is suffering from leukemia and in a wheelchair, was detained and…
