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FBI’s Most Wanted Lists Get High-Tech Makeover Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:16 PM PDT If you’ve earned yourself a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, you have a lot more to worry about these days than seeing your picture on the wall at your local post office. The agency has begun to use some very cool high-tech tools to capture fugitives — and to find missing persons, too. The bureau recently upgraded its use of widgets mini-applications that can be added to a Web page or a PC’s desktop and updated remotely by simply copying and pasting Web code. It has designed interactive iPhone-looking posters that bloggers and MySpace and Facebook users can embed on their pages to showcase the bad guys. There are weekly podcasts, e-mail alerts and digital billboards posted across the country that have directly led to the capture of at least 70 fugitives. See FBI Widget Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

Office in Salt Lake City A Terror Target? Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:09 PM PDT A building in downtown Salt Lake City was considered a terrorist target in the weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, according to internal FBI memos recently made public. A communique from FBI headquarters suggested the building, which houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah, was to be the third target on a nationwide terror spree. The first target was the federal building in Oklahoma City. “The third target is an attack at the north east corner of 2nd Street and State street south of the *(Not the target), Salt Lake City, Utah, slated for a lethal type device on 6/19/95 (daylight hours),” the memo reads. Other targets included buildings in Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Las Vegas and Chicago. The memo was included in a series of documents given to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who has filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI and CIA in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue is investigating the death of his brother, Kenny, a convicted bank robber who was picked up for a parole violation in the frantic months after the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168. Trentadue believes Kenny was mistaken for an associate of convicted bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and killed in an interrogation that went horribly awry. The federal government maintains Kenneth Trentadue committed suicide in his federal prison cell. Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

White House to Keep Agencies Focus on Terrorism Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:03 PM PDT The Obama administration is moving to solidify one of the most significant shifts of resources put into place under President George W. Bush: the transformation of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into agencies where the top priority is counterterrorism rather than conventional law enforcement. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other Justice Department officials have emphasized that they will not cut resources allocated to national security in the foreseeable future, and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, told lawmakers on Wednesday that “we have no intention of retreating from preventing a terrorist attack on American soil as our No. 1 priority.” Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

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