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FBI Using Futuristic Facial Recognition Technology on Driver’s Licenses
Like out of a sci-fi movie, the FBI is using this advanced technology. It seems cool. But not everyone is cool with it, like the ACLU. Will this futuristic approach bump up against legal challenges? By MIKE BAKER Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. – In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology…
ATF Will Decide Whether To Launch Probes in Wake of NY Undercover Gun Buying Spree
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it will review whether to take criminal action as a result of findings by the New York City’s mayors office, which had undercover investigators buy weapons from unlicensed dealers at gun shows in Nevada, Ohio and Tennessee. “ATF has…
Insp. General Report Says Homeland Security Computers Vulnerable to Hackers
Maybe it’s asking too much, but you’d expect that an agency called Homeland Security would have more secure web sites. The federal government still needs to do much more to safeguard its computers from hackers. By Alice Lipowicz Federal Computer Week The Homeland Security Department’s most popular Web sites appear to be vulnerable to hackers…
Fed Trial Begins Tues. in Largest Single-Site Immigration Raid in U.S. History
The feds say the product may have been kosher, but the operation was not. The case involving this kosher meat plant and the use of illegal immigrants has gotten so much publicity that the trial has been moved from Iowa to South Dakota. By Grant Schulte USA TODAY DES MOINES – The man who managed…
41 Years Later, FBI Arrests Pan Am Hijacker in NY
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Better late than never. The FBI in New York arrested Louis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, who was wanted for the 1968 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281 bound from New York to Puerto Rico, the New York Times reports. Soltren arranged to surrender so he could visit his famiy, including his…
Justice Dept. to Review Mandatory Waivers of DNA Testing for Some Fed Convicts
This is an interesting issue. The bottom line is: No one should have to waive their right to DNA testing if there’s any remote possibility that it will prove their innocence. It’s called the justice system. Why should we take something away that can provide justice? If we can prove something beyond a reasonable doubt,…
FBI Releases Soundless Video of Tsunami Striking Its Parking Lot in American Samoa
Note: It takes some patience to watch this. The action doesn’t come until the last few seconds of this 2:08 minute tape. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9gApr7x68
Weekend Series on History: The Life and Disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7z4BUYSfVo