By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA officer is under fire after being accused of secretly videotaping a female coworker in an employee restroom at the Nashville International Airport, WJRN reports. Daniel Boykin, 33, of Murfreesboro also is accused of entering the victim’s Nashville home several times to take information from her computers and electronic devices….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trying to combat published reports that the FBI has scolded Israeli diplomats dozens of times for spying on American intelligence since 9/11, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said the allegations were baseless. The Jerusalem Post reported that the former ambassador, Michael Oren, insisted the relationship between the two countries has…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While many Americans were watching a televised title bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier nearly 23 years, antiwar activists were breaking into the FBI office in Philadelphia and stealing confidential documents. What happened that day was largely unknown until the author of a new book convinced five of the eight burglars…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is the intelligence community on the verge of a major shakeup? Maybe so, the USA Today reports. As public pressure builds against the NSA over more revelations over international and domestic spying, lawmakers are considering major overhauls. “It is time for serious and meaningful reforms so we can restore confidence in our…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawmakers are trying to expand the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies to make spying more seamless when a terror suspect enters the U.S., the Associated Press reports. The idea is to close the gap between NSA and FBI electronic surveillance, which occurs because of different legal standards between the two agencies. That…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com AT&T agreed to provide the DEA with real time access to an unprecedented amount of phone records as part of a recently revealed partnership, The Atlantic reports. Since 2007, the DEA has had access to every call that goes through AT&T’s switchboard, The Atlantic wrote. The phone company even provided four employees…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A top Brazilian official has expressed anger over the U.S.’s secret surveillance of telephone and email conversations in his South American country, The USA Today reports. Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said he’d learned that the NSA has subjected Brazilian residents to espionage through the widespread surveillance of phone and email records. The…
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…
