Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is close to stiffening surveillance laws to make it easier to wiretap people who use the Internet, the New York Times reports. Saying it’s much easier to wiretap people using traditional phone services, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III wants the federal government to extend the practice to monitor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suspect, who was identified from two videos taken before Monday’s marathon, was arrested, CNN initially reported. But now the network is saying there has been no arrested. CNN reported that one video was surveillance footage from a nearby Lord & Taylor department store and the other was taken by a…
By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post WASHINGTON — A federal court in California has ruled that a surveillance tool widely used by the FBI to obtain information on Americans without court oversight is unconstitutional because the gag order that accompanies it violates the First Amendment. The ruling by Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police don’t need a search warrant to install hidden surveillance cameras to spy on suspects, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, CNET reports. The case involved DEA agents installing multiple surveillance cameras without a warrant to uncover evidence of a marijuana growing operation. The DEA didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects against…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports. The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial…
By Jordy Yager The Hill WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI on Wednesday used a recently thwarted bomb plot to press Congress to extend the agency’s ability to spy on foreigners abroad without a warrant. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a panel of House lawmakers that some of the surveillance provisions, which are set…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds is causing a stir once again. The former contract linquist for the FBI, claims, via her lawyer, that the agency’s prepublication review is imposing restrictions that are blocking her from publishing her book about the bureau, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that she was fired a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When Hasan M. Elahi landed in Detroit, Mich., and walked into the country on June 19, 2002, a customs official asked that Elahi follow him to an Immigration and Naturalization Services office at the airport. That incident initiated a period of “questioning went on for the next six months and ended…
