Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some House Republicans are urging the FBI to shut down Hamas-related Twitter accounts because some are being used for terrorism, The Hill reports. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who co-authored a letter to the FBI in September with six other Republican colleagues, resumed his call for taking down the accounts following Hamas attacks…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI wants greater access. CNET reports that that the FBI is pushing for legislation to force social networks like Facebook and Twitter, email providers and peer-to-peer networks to become “wiretap friendly. CNET reports that the legislation would expand a current law for cell phone operators and broadband networks. To read…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Twitter has gotten high grades for helping promote revolutions and for helping communicate the news. Here’s one of the uses that doesn’t get high grades. The FBI is hunting for a Chicago native who pimps underage girls and brags about it on Twitter, The Smoking Gun website reports. Authorities have issued…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It is no secret that social networks provide riches of info available to the public. And the FBI is looking for ways to cash in on that and better monitor info on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, reports the New Scientist. A document released on January 19 shows the bureau…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday faced the first of two days of hearings for his sentencing on public corruption charges. The usually chatty ex-governor had walked quietly out of his home earlier in the morning and into the courtroom via a passage blocked off to the media he once revelled in, a…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle, who created drama by defying court gag orders and posting comments on Twitter and Facebook, was hit Wednesday with a 37 months federal sentence for bribery and extortion, the Detroit News reported. Riddle, 64, admitted bribing former Southfield City Councilman William Lattimore, tax evasion and extorting…
white house photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into two death threats against President Obama that surfaced on Twitter regarding the historic health care vote in the House, according to the Daily Telegraph of Australia. “We are aware of the comments and are taking the appropriate investigative action,”…
