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Feds to Release Bacteria into Boston’s Subway System in Simulated Attack
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security is releasing dead bacteria into Boston’s Subway System to test its new bio-terror sensing detector, the Business Insider reports. Scientists will release Bacillus subtilis, a non-toxic bacterium found in soil, water, air and decomposing plant matter, as part of a simulated biological weapon attack. It can’t cause…
Dentist Sentenced to Prison for Threats to FBI Agent
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Pennsylvania dentist who seems convinced that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a computer-hacking danger to the country was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for threatening an FBI agent, The Associated Press reports. The threats came after Gregory Heeb, an FBI agent in Pittsburgh, notified the mother of Anthony…
Ex-Marine Says He Plans to Sue FBI Over Involuntarily Psychiatric Evaluation
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Marine who was placed in involuntary psychiatric care for Facebook posts said he plans to sue the FBI and police over the detainment, the Guardian reports. Speaking out after his release, Brandon Raub said the detainment sent “an extremely alarming” message to Americans. Raub prompted concerns after he posted…
ICE Officers Files Suit Over President Obama’s Immigration Initiative
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ten ICE officers filed a lawsuit in federal court last week in hopes of invalidating President Obama’s new initiative to defer the removal of 1.8 million young illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements for at least two years, according to the Heritage Foundation. The lawsuit claims the agents have been ordered…
Interview: FBI Veteran April Brooks Has History of Cracking Down on Crime
Steve Neavling Ticklethewire.com April Brooks, the new head of the FBI’s criminal division in New York, seems to have done it all. The first woman to run New York’s criminal division, the 45-year-old helped track down sex offenders and murders, crack down on dangerous gangs and go after corrupt officials, Reuters reports. “This is just…
FBI Files on Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Show No Hint of Scandal
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com The FBI has released a 868-page file on the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, but there was nothing in it hinting of the scandal that would shame the coach the school, the New York Daily News reports. The paper reports that the file mostly involves involves threatening letters sent…
U.S. Continues Search for Former Missing Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson in Iran
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent Robert Levinson has been missing in for 2,000 days. He vanished while visiting Iran. The U.S. State Department pledged Tuesday to continue its hunt for the 64-year-old man, who disappeared March 9, 2007, UPI reports. The family last received a video of Levinson two years ago, but nothing since….
Former FBI Director Louie Freeh’s Law Firm to Merge with Prominent Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Wilmington-based law firm of former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is to merge with prominent Center City-based law firm, Pepper Hamilton L.L.P., the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The merger is designed to prepare Pepper Hamilton to expand its white-collar defense practice, according to the Inquirer. Freeh started his own law firm in…