Internet Companies Like Google Could Face Fines for Refusing to Comply with Wiretap Orders

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Companies that refuse to comply with wiretap orders would be penalized under FBI-backed legislation that is being drawn up by a government task force, RT reports. That means companies like Google and Facebook would be fined tens of thousands of dollars a day for refusing to cooperate. “We don’t have the ability…

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Sen. Graham Blames Information Sharing on Failure to Detect Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects

Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com  U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham sharply criticized law enforcement’s information-sharing system during the probe into the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, Business Insider reports. Graham said the system should have picked up on the suspicious activity of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Graham also urged federal agencies to “up our game.” “When one of these…

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U.S. Rep. King Blames Russia Over Communicating Radicalization of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  U.S. Rep. Peter King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Russia should have informed Washington D.C. about the radicalization of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and his mother, the Associated Press reports. The New York Republican said better communication “definitely would have caused the investigation to go…

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FBI Explores “Persons of Interest” in Boston Marathon Bombing Case

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating “persons of interest” in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, the Washington Post reports. “There are persons of interest in the United States,” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, told ABC News. “We’re looking at phone calls before and after the bombing, this…

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Boston Marathon Suspects Stops Cooperating After Miranda Rights Read

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After 16 hours of interrogations in a hospital, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect stopped talking when a federal magistrate read him his miranda rights for the first time Monday, Newsday reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being questioned under a public-safety exception that does not require law enforcement to read suspects their miranda…

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