Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI officially named Andrew McCabe to its top national security post. The long-time terrorism investigator was promoted to assistant director of the National Security Branch, which oversees terrorism-related intelligence, the FBI announced. McCabe, who began his career in 1996 with the bureau’s organized crime squad in New York, was the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Speaking for the first time publicly about the budget challenges, new FBI Director James Comey said it will become increasingly difficult to fight crime because of the spending cuts, CBS Philly reports. Congressional spending cuts may have catastrophic consequences for the FBI as it faces more pressure to fight violent crime and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A few days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Anas al Libi was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list. The reward – $25 million, the same amount offered for the capture of Osama bin Laden. On Saturday, authorities finally captured al Libi in Libya, accusing him of being one of the…
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 The stream of young Somali Americans joining terrorists in Somalia continues to flow despite an attempt by authorities to cut off money to support terrorism, the Associated Press reports. The population is concentrated in Minnesota, where Somali Americans have been leaving to join al-Shabab in Somalia for six years. At least 22…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI began the grueling process of investigating a bullet-riddled Nairobi mall where more than 60 people were killed by terrorists, the Associated Press reports. Agents were working along bodies crushed by rubble as they began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to determine the identities of the terrorists. The FBI believes Americans…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether as many as five Americans were part of a team of terrorists who took over a Kenyan mall over the weekend, unleashing an attack that led to the death of at least 68 people, NBC News reports. The probe comes after a group purporting to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department grossly overstated the number of terrorism convictions and made other inaccuracies because of shoddy record keeping, a federal audit has found, the Washington Post reports. Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz concluded in a report that the federal agency, which has 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices, over-reported the number…
