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FBI Reports that 56 Law Enforcement Officers Were “Feloniously Killed” in 2010; Up From Previous Year
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fifty-six law enforcement officers in 22 states and Puerto Rico were “feloniously killed” in 2010, up from 48 the year before, the FBI reported. The annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report released Monday also showed more than 53,000 officers were assaulted in 2010. An FBI press release summed up…
FBI Accused of “Industrial Scale Racial Profiling”
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com New documents have been obtained by the ACLU which Salon.com said over the weekend point to the FBI’s use of “industrial scale racial profiling.” The documents are related to an FBI program that used demographic information to map ethnic and racial communities and the criminal activities related to each group,…
FBI Steps in After Chicago Police Clear One of Their Own in Shooting of Unarmed Man
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — The FBI has decided to step in after the Chicago police department cleared a cop who fatally shot an unarmed suspect seven times, NBC Chicago reported. Officer Gildardo Sierra fired at Flint Farmer in June and then fired some more after Farmer was already shot and lying on his…
FBI Official Says We Need Secure Alternative Internet to Fend Off Cyber Threats
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We could be headed for bigger trouble if we don’t develop a highly secure alternative Internet to fend off the ever increasing cyber threats against critical utilities and financial systems, an FBI official told the Associated Press Thursday. Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director, told AP that critical systems are…
For 2nd Time in Less than a Week, Rep. Cummings Blasts Rep. Issa Over Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the second time in less than a week, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings has publicly blasted Republican Rep. Darrell Issa over ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen, all with the hopes of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels. ATF lost track of…
Minn. Women Convicted of Material Support for Terrorists
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It wasn’t the Avon lady. It wasn’t even two generous ladies seeking donations for the poor and needy of Somalia they claimed to be. Amina Farah Ali, 35, and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 64, two naturalized U.S. citizens from Somalia living in Rochester, Minn., were convicted Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis…
Ex-Amusement Park Worker Convicted of Threatening FBI Agent, Estranged Wife and Others Via Facebook
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony Delonis tested his First Amendment rights in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania via Facebook and lost. The Legal Intelligencer reported that a federal jury on Thursday convicted him of threatening people through Facebook postings including an FBI agent, his estranged wife, the Pennsylvania State Police and the…