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Suburban Detroit Man Accused of Threatening to Behead NYPD Officer
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Detroit man with Asperger’s syndrome faces up to five years in prison after the FBI said he threatened on Facebook to behead a New York police officer who placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold, the Detroit News reports. Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles also is accused…
Republican’s Last-Ditch Effort to Halt President’s Immigration Plan Is Destined to Fail
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Even if Republicans pass a spending measure intended to squash President Obama’s executive action on immigration, they won’t be successful, PBS.org reports. PBS notes that a shutdown, which would happen if a funding plan isn’t in place by Feb. 27, would not impact about 85% of the agency’s workers, including those…
Head of Interpol in D.C. Accused of Exploiting His Power to Land Jobs for Relatives, Friends
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Warren Lewis, the executive officer at Interpol’s Washington D.C. office, is accused of exploiting his authority to get a job for his son and other relatives and acquaintances, Fox News reports. The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s Office revealed the findings in a reported released Wednesday. Other high-ranking officials are accused of…
Man Claims TSA Jailed Him for 23 Hours for Threatening to File Complaint
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 57-year-old man claims in a lawsuit that the TSA jailed him for 23 hours in retaliation for asking to file a complaint about the length of a search, the Daily News reports. Roger Vanderklok said security thew him in jail while he was trying to fly from Philadelphia International Airport…
FBI Believes ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’ Killed in Air Strike in Philippines
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists is believed to be dead following a raid in the Philippines last week, Reuters reports. The FBI collected body matter at the scene of the deadly raid, and a DNA sample shows a strong link to Zulkifli bin Hir. Still, the tests don’t prove…
FBI: ISIS Is Recruiting Teenagers from U.S. to Join Widening Terror Campaign
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The terrorist group, ISIS, is recruiting teenagers in the U.S. as part of a broadening campaign of violence, a top FBI official told CNN. Michael Steinbach, head of the FBI’s counterterrorist division, said the teenagers are as young as 15. He said he “can’t speak with 100% certainty that individuals of…
FBI to Allow Companies to Reveal When They Receive National Security Letters
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies like Google and Microsoft have long expressed frustration with the inability to disclose when they’ve received a secretive compliance order from the FBI seeking records. Under a new FBI policy, companies will be able to disclose the “national security letters,” but only “at the earlier of three years after the…
Defiant Justice Department Attorneys Target California Marijuana Dispensary
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal appeals court wants to know why the Justice Department was targeting a popular marijuana dispensary after the federal government said it would not intervene in states’ medicinal pot laws, The Associated Press reports. “The United States government, the president and the attorney general and the justice department is largely…