By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The relationship between the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department is coming under some scrutiny by civil rights advocates and local legislators, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Supervisor Jane Kim introduced an ordinance Tuesday to prohibit police that work with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force from collecting information about…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Amid questions of FBI tactics in pursuing terror suspects, one thing that doesn’t seem to be questioned is the rate of convictions, reports the Tampa Bay Times. Many critics have voiced concern in the media lately over whether the FBI is catching and preventing terrorists, or nurturing and cultivating people to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal authorities have arrested an Islamic extremist, but Adam Martin at the Atlantic Wire is skeptical. Kosovo-born Sami Osmakac is being charged with plotting to bomb Tampa, Fla.-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office to “avenge wrongs done to Muslims,” according to the AP. But Martin is quite ready to pat the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Army soldier was charged Monday in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, the terrorist organization, the FBI said in a statement. Craig Benedict Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, January 6, when he returned to his home state…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Low financing and a bag of heroin? Get out of town! Agents with the DEA raided a car dealership in Tulsa, Ok. on suspicions that the business is one of about 30 others in the US selling cars and drugs to help fund the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, FOX reports. Agents say…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Were the Newburgh Four really intent on perpetrating terrorist attacks on US military planes and the homes of wealthy New York Jews? A report by the Guardian on Monday questions the “ethos” of FBI investigation that led to the conviction of the four suburban New Yorkers that were jailed for 25…
By Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent ConsortiumNews.com The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our Constitutional Republic into a powerful, unaccountable Military Empire. The U.S. Senate has just voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, which allows the military to operate…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has turned to the Army for help with its counterterrorism training. After a troubled past with their understanding and interactions with Islam, reports Wired Magazine’s The Danger Room blog, the Bureau will begin working with the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. The center at West Point…
