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Lieberman Wants Google To Let Users Flag 'Terrorist Content' On Blogging Platform

Ryan J. Reilly | November 22, 2011, 3:08PM

Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT)

When he wasn't smoking pot with the New York Police Department's confidential informant or trying to manually cut off the tip of his penis, "lone wolf" terror suspect Jose Pimentel was running a jihadist website on Google's Blogger platform.

Now Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wants Google to implement a policy explicitly banning terrorist material on their Blogger servers and set up a YouTube-style "flag" system to bring such material to Google's attention.

TPM obtained a letter sent by Lieberman, chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, to Google CEO Larry Page on Tuesday calling for him to make some changes to their policy.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorist, FBI, Google, Joe Lieberman, Jose Pimentel, NYPD, New York City, New York Police Department

Kevin Harpham

Statements Thrown Out After Miranda Not Read To White Supremacist Terror Suspect

Ryan J. Reilly | August 17, 2011, 8:40AM

Updated: August 17, 2011, 9:45AM

The FBI's decision not to immediately advise a suspected terrorist of his Miranda rights upon his arrest has upset a federal judge and caused prosecutors to agree not to use statements he made prior to being advised of his rights in court.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Domestic Terrorist, Kevin Harpham, MLK Day Bomb

Awais Younis

The Facebook Messages The Alleged D.C. Metro Threatener Sent To Friend

Ryan J. Reilly | February 1, 2011, 11:00AM

Awais Younis, the 26-year-old Virginia man who federal authorities say threatened to set off bombs on the D.C. Metro system, sent threatening messages to a female acquaintance of his who was living in the New Orleans area at the time. The woman informed the FBI of the threats, and an agent reportedly took photos of the messages on what appears to be an iPhone.

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Topics: Awais Younis, D.C. Metro system, Domestic Terrorist, FBI, Islamic Terrorism, Washington, D.C.

Emerson Begolly

Alleged Jihadist Joked FBI Was 'Drunk' When He Got His AK-47

Ryan J. Reilly | January 14, 2011, 9:46AM

Nobody was more surprised than 21-year-old Emerson Begolly when he cleared an Federal Bureau of Investigation background check and was allowed to purchase an AK-47 assault rifle last year. After all, he'd been a moderator and contributor on Islamic extremist web forums, posted songs praising suicide bombers, discussed his jihad fantasies in the open and even made an appearance in Newsweek under a pseudonym that his grandmother clipped and saved. He knew for a fact "the man" was onto him.

"i honestly think that the day the[y] ended the hold and sold me the gun someone at the FBI showed up to work drunk," Begolly wrote on a jihadist web forum under the name Abu Nancy (the name of his imaginary daughter), according to transcripts filed by the feds yesterday.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorist, Emerson Begolly, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Islamic Terrorism, Terror Plot, Terrorism, Terrorist Watchlists

Emerson Begolly

Gov't: Nazi-Dressing Alleged Jihadist Doesn't Need An AK-47

Ryan J. Reilly | January 13, 2011, 10:55AM

The government doesn't want Emerson Begolly, the 21-year-old former Penn State student who allegedly bit two FBI agents in the parking lot of a Burger King when they tried to question him about apparent pro-jihad messages he posted online, released.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Department of Justice, Domestic Terrorist, Emerson Begolly, FBI, Islamic Terrorism, Justice Department, Pennsylvania, Terror Cell, Terror Plot, Terrorism, Terrorist Watchlists

Emerson Begolly

Nazi-Dressing Alleged Jihadist Charged With Biting Two FBI Agents

Ryan J. Reilly | January 10, 2011, 8:52AM

Emerson Begolly, a 21-year-old Penn State student who allegedly expressed pro-jihad and anti-Semitic sentiments, was arrested in the parking lot of a Burger King in Pennsylvania last week after he allegedly went for a gun in his pocket and then bit two FBI agents when they tried to question him about his online activities.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorist, Emerson Begolly, FBI, Islamic Terrorism, Pennsylvania, Terror Plot, Terrorism, Terrorist Watchlists

'Jihad Kathie'

Right Wing Blog: Fox News Didn't Narc On 'Terror Grandma,' We Did!

Ryan J. Reilly | January 4, 2011, 12:40PM

A right-wing blog that tracks networks of Islamic extremists online says it was them, not Fox News, that brought a video of a woman the network later labeled "Terror Grandma" to the attention of authorities.

"Fox did not drop the dime, we did," writes blogger Howie on the Jawa Report. "Given the quick death of the video and its nature, which Ill elaborate on more later, we sent it along through the proper channels. Just to be sure." TPM was unable to independently verify Howie's claims.