Records: FBI Continues to Investigate Deceased Rolling Stone Journalist Michael Hastings

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  The FBI continues to investigate Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, who died in a car crash in June, for “controversial reporting,” Al Jazeera America reports. The bureau opened a file on Hastings on June 11, 2012 “to memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012,” according to records obtained…

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‘Dirty Old Man’ Charles Bukowski, a Late Novelist and Poet, Was Subject of FBI Scrutiny

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Late novelist and poet Charles Bukowski was not ashamed to admit it – he was a “dirty old man.” That caught the FBI’s attention, as did Bukowski’s potential ties to the underground press, reports the Los Angeles Times. More than 100 pages of FBI files from 1968 show agents investigated Bukowski, a postal…

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Former FBI Analyst Gets More Than 4 Years in Prison for Possessing Child Porn

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI analyst was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for possessing child pornography, The Washington Post reports. Keith Dietterle, 28, who admitted to sending a pornographic image to an undercover officer, was nabbed in an undercover sting in November. Dietterle was busted after communicating through a social…

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M-13 Gang Member Found Guilty of Execution-Style Murders of Mother, 2-year-old

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal jury has found notorious gang member Adalberto Ariel Guzman guilty of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and firearms offenses, the FBI reports. Monday’s conviction offers some relief to family members and friends of a mother and her 2-year-old who were shot execution-style in Central Islip, New York, in 2010. Guzman,…

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