By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has acknowledged that it sent aircraft into the sky to watch over rioting in Baltimore. The news comes after numerous sightings of aircraft over the city. The FBI told the Baltimore Sun that the aircraft was intended to monitor criminal activity. “The aircraft were specifically used to assist in…
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’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone call records violated the constitutional rights of Americans, alleges the Human Rights Watch in a lawsuit against the agency. Forbes reports that the suit comes just a day after a USA Today report on the surveillance program. The DEA reportedly amassed billions of phone…
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 Members of FBI surveillance teams are getting fed up with what they say are internal politics and nepotism that are distracting from the mission of tracking terrorists, spies and mobsters, The Washington Times reports. The newspaper reviewed FBI memos that showed at least three relatives of FBI supervisors landing jobs…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s ability to covertly collect “books, papers, documents, and other items” with a court order is at risk. The Washington Times reports that the Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire in June, and it’s unclear whether lawmakers will “renew it, reform it or let it expire.”…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 57-year-old man claims in a lawsuit that the TSA jailed him for 23 hours in retaliation for asking to file a complaint about the length of a search, the Daily News reports. Roger Vanderklok said security thew him in jail while he was trying to fly from Philadelphia International Airport…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Microsoft took less than one hour to provide the FBI with data connected to the Charlie Hebdo investigation, an attorney for the software giant said Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times reports. After concluding the request was “proper,” Microsoft gave the FBI the information in within about 45 minutes. Microsoft attorney Brad…
