On Wednesday, the White House will release an executive order that will significantly alter the longstanding practice of not only refusing to negotiate with terrorists for the release of hostages, but threatening American citizens with prosecution if they attempt to do so.
Will we now be told the “internal decision-making process” that led the Administration to misrepresent this debacle to the public was also nobody’s fault, mysterious orders emanating from nowhere, a tornado of dishonesty spinning away from a storm of incompetence?
A former police chief targeted by a federal investigation into the theft of federal border security grant money has been found dead. While details have not been released, authorities in Rio Grande City found the body of Byron “Dutch” Piper Tuesday morning, in what authorities believe to be a suicide.
A retired Texas border police chief is expected to turn himself in to authorities on federal charges accusing him of stealing money from a federal border-enforcement grant.
The aspiring jihadi was set on purchasing an AR-15 at a North Carolina gun show on Saturday, which he would use as part of a wider plan to kill as many as 1,000 Americans, the complaint against Sullivan said.
To show his devotion to the Islamic State terror group, and to Islam as a whole, an Ohio man arrested on Friday told an informant that he would cut off the head of his own biological son—akin to the beheadings carried out by Islamic State (ISIS) fanatics in the Middle East—to prove his worth as a Muslim, an FBI complaint against the man revealed.
Federal agents have arrested a U.S. citizen who pledged his support for ISIS, and talked to terror supporters about carrying out attacks in America.
Federal agents continue their crackdown on Medicare abuse spanning from the Texas Border to Chicago, in a series of cases that have resulted in 243 individuals getting charged in the federal courts of 17 different districts.
More than $100 million has been paid out through one form of government medical aid in the border county of Hidalgo, from January to May. However, investigators believe a large part of that money may be tied to Medicare abuse.
The accomplices of slain jihadi Usaama Rahim, who was killed by a Boston police officer and FBI agent when he charged them with a knife, have been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State.
After ESPN released a May 22 report charging Patricia Driscoll, former girlfriend of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, with questionable financial practices in her capacity as executive director of the multimillion-dollar Armed Forces Foundation (AFF), the FBI and IRS have decided to investigate her, according to “Outside the Lines.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, a Green Beret war hero, told lawmakers that the government retaliated against him, in part, because he told Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) that the Obama administration paid a ransom that ended up stolen for accused deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Eighteen members of the Aryan Brotherhood gang have been sentenced to federal prison for their role in a large-scale methamphetamine distribution network. The Aryan Brotherhood has been known to act as an enforcement and distribution arm for the Mexican Gulf cartel, the transnational criminal organization that controls territory immediately south of the Rio Grand Valley Sector of Texas.
A federal investigation into last summer’s celebrity nude photo hack led agents to a residence on the South Side of Chicago, and revealed the number of targeted victims to be much larger than previously thought.
A Texas border woman with a long history of making terroristic threats is looking at spending up to 10 years in prison for threatening to blow up the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration building in Laredo.
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Although early statements from the FBI and local authorities on Tuesday afternoon indicated Rahim was not considered an imminent threat to public safety, that opinion appears to have been revised overnight. “The FBI knew Usaama Rahim was armed and potentially dangerous and moved on him Tuesday morning when it appeared the threat he posed to uniformed officers in the Boston area had somehow increased,” sources told ABC News.
The Boston Globe reports that a Middle Eastern man in his 20s who was under surveillance by a joint counter-terrorism task force was shot during a confrontation with an FBI agent and a police officer in Roslindale on Tuesday morning.
Bomb threats were made against five different aircraft, from five different airlines, on flights either originating or landing in the United States on Tuesday. Officials say all five of the threats were “non-credible,” part of a surge in hoax bomb threats in progress since Memorial Day.
FALFURRIAS, Texas – Hundreds of federal state and local law enforcement officials descended on this small Texas city as they quickly moved along the main strip raiding close to a dozen underground casinos.
MyFoxAtlanta reports that Leon Nathan Davis, a 37-year-old resident of Augusta, Georgia, has pleaded guilty in federal court on charges of “helping and attempting to join the ISIS terrorist organization.” Prosecutors say he could be looking at up to “15 years in prison, a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress wrestles over renewing the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, federal law enforcement officials are warning that legal authority is also at risk for lesser-known surveillance tools that are even more valuable in fighting terrorism.
Fox News reports exclusively obtaining a bulletin from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center warning of an extremely high volume of terrorist “chatter” on pro-ISIS social media. There is so much activity that our intelligence agencies are having a hard time keeping up with it all… and a great deal of the social media noise is coming from within our borders.
NBC News reports that the FBI has arrested two men in Southern California on terrorism-related charges, specifically a plan to hook up with ISIS in Syria.
On May 19 the Center for American Progress (CAP) joined GOP calls to do away with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the shuffle the agency’s current responsibilities to other federal agencies.
