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FBI Cuts Back on Use of GPS Systems After Supreme Court Ruling
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Supreme Court has ruled and the FBI is responding. USA Today reports that the FBI has started cutting back on the use of GPS surveillance in wake of a Jan. 23 Supreme Court ruling which said law enforcement needs court authorization to attach a GPS to a vehicle. The paper…
FBI Paying Closer Attention to “Sovereign Citizen” Extremists
By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The FBI has been paying closer attention to ‘sovereign citizen’ extremists around the country out of concerns that they will react violently when they interact with government officials. Sovereign citizens are people who reject their U.S. citizenship and don’t recognize government authority, like laws and taxes. In 2009, the FBI…
LA Feds End Probe into Lance Armstrong; No Charges Filed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a two-year doping investigation that triggered plenty speculation and gossip, fed prosecutors in Los Angeles decided to end their probe into Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong without filing charges, the Los Angeles Times reported. The media relentlessly reported on the probe and the folks who appeared before the grand…
US Citizen Denied Re-entry After Trip to Libya
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An Oregon man is defending his innocence after being banned from flying back into the United States, reports FOX News. After flying to Libya, Jamal Tarhuni’s native country, to distribute medicine and supplies during the country’s recent violent revolution, the 55-year-old naturalized citizen of the US was barred from boarding a…
How Whitey Bulger Corrupted the Justice System
By NPR Staff When Whitey Bulger was captured last year, he’d spent close to 20 years on the run — and on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Bulger was the head of an Irish gang terrorizing the streets of South Boston. The Massachusetts State Police wanted him gone, but curiously couldn’t touch him. Why? Bulger…
Hackers Intercept FBI, Scotland Yard Call
By The Associated Press LONDON — A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police’s cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said Friday. Hacking collective Anonymous published a roughly 15-minute-long recording of a conference call apparently devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loosely-knit…
Lubbock City Property Returned After a Nearly 4-Year FBI Investigation
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal agents and prosecutors know too well the frustration of investigating something for a long long time, only to come up empty handed. Well, that’s just what happened in Lubbock, Tex. A nearly four-year-long FBI investigation of the city and its former healthcare administrator has resulted in no charges, according to…
NYC Councilman Regrets Comments About FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York city councilman is recanting comments he made over the weekend critical of the FBI, reports the New York Post City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Queens) likened an FBI investigation looking into the campaign finances of his friend Comptroller John Liu to “political entrapment” on a radio show over the…