By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined local and state police in the hunt for whoever is responsible for a drive-by shooting that wounded an Anchorage police officer on Saturday, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The officer, Jason Allen, 47, was shot five times and remained hospitalized, the paper wrote. To read more click…
James Kallstrom is a former FBI Assistant Director and a member of the FBI Director’s Advisory Group. He was also a director of the New York Homeland Security Agency. By JAMES KALLSTROM New York Post Op-Ed Ever since 9/11, critics have suggested that the FBI isn’t up to its task as our nation’s lead counterterrorism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — If there’s any doubt the narco-terror war in Mexico is real and getting crazier– just look to Saturday: 69 people were murdered, including 26 in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, the Associated Press is reporting. In 2009, Mexico recorded more than 6,500 drug related murders. The AP reports…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has created an e-mail account to collect tips on at least eight slayings between 1986 and 1989 in Virginia known as the Colonial Parkway Murders, the Washington Examiner is reporting. None of the murders along the 23-mile stretch between Jamestown and Yorktown have been solved and the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric Holder Jr., the nation’s first black Attorney General, on Monday swore in Carmen Milagros Ortiz as Massachusetts’ first woman and Hispanic U.S. Attorney. The two first met 30 years ago when Holder was a young lawyer in the Justice Department and Ortiz was a law student serving an internship in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells ESPN.com that he didn’t need baseball slugger Mark McGwire’s confession on Monday to know he was taking illegal steroids. Stejskal says informants told the FBI about McGwire’s doping regimen two decades ago and added…
