terrorism
NSA Leader: Government Surveillance Helped Prevent More than 50 Terrorist Attacks
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Top security officials said Tuesday they disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots using government surveillance, The New York Times reports. Trying to fend off fierce criticism about the recent disclosure of government surveillance, national security officers told the House Intelligence Committee that investigators used the private information to prevent terrorist attacks. One…
Report: At least 27 Accused Terrorists Prosecuted Under Secret Surveillance Law
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 27 accused terrorists were prosecuted since 2007 using evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Reuters reports. The FISA cases vary from murder to an 18-year-old American trying to join an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria. As early as today, the U.S. government plans to disclose how many terrorist attacks…
NSA to Reveal Number of Terrorism Plots Foiled by Massive Surveillance Program
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to quell criticism of the National Security Agency’s widespread telephone data surveillance programs, federal officials plan to announce Monday the number of terror plot foiled by monitoring, Reuters reports. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced the agency’s plans after NSA Chief General Keith Alexander said dozens of…
NSA Director Defends Surveillance Programs As Critical Tools in Fight Against Terrorism
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The director of the National Security Agency forcefully defended the surveillance programs Wednesday that kept tabs on Internet activity and collected millions of telephone records, the Associated Press reports. The once-secret programs, which was disclosed this month to an incensed public, were invaluable tools in the fight against terrorism, said NSA Director…
Washington State Man Accused of Sending Ricin-Tainted Letters to President Obama, Federal Judge
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 37-year-old Washington state man accused of sending a ricin-laden letter and death threat to a federal judge also is suspected of recently sending the poison to President Obama, the Associated Press reports. Matthew Ryan Buquet, who is being held without bond in a Spokane jail, has pleaded not guilty to sending…
Islam Convert Denies Radicalizing Older Brother in Boston Marathon Bombings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of radicalizing the older brother in the Boston Marathon bombings denied any wrongdoing and said he would never condone a terrorist attack, the Washington Times reports. Mikhail Allakhverdov, 39, a convert to Islam, denied allegations leveled by relatives of Tamerian Tsarnaev. “I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been…
Boston Bombing Suspect Was on Two U.S. Terror-Watch Lists
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Suspected Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on two U.S. terror-watch database because of alleged ties to Islamic extremism, ABC News reports. The suspect, who was killed in a shootout, was added to two terrorism watch lists last year after Russia requested the FBI investigate Tsarnaev. Turns out, Russia provided…