By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of the unusual comes this: The FBI has asked the IFC sketch comedy show “Portlandia” for rights to use a clip from the program in its advanced intelligence training classes, according to Marketplace Punchline. The website cites the Hollywood Reporter: In April, an instructor at the FBI Academy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is scouring state databases of driver’s license photos to search for face matches of criminals, WND reports. “A probe photo refers to the photo of the subject of an active FBI investigation that is submitted for search against a photo repository,” states the FBI’s agreement with Illinois, which is nearly…
By The Central Florida Future Editorial According to Federal Bureau of Investigation documentation obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the New York Times, the FBI has been found justified in 150 shootings of subjects from 1993 to 2011. Of said shootings, 70 were fatal. “The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former Border Patrol agents were sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for operating a massive human smuggling ring, the Associated Press reports. Federal District Judge John A. Houston sentenced Raul Villarreal, the ring leader, to 35 years in prison Friday; his brother Fidel Villarreal was sentenced to 30 years…
This column first appeared in the New York Daily News on June 22. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In August 1994, I was attending an FBI sports presentation conference. The bureau has a program where trained agents make presentations to college and professional sports teams regarding illegal sports gambling and other topics. Representatives from the NFL,…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the New York Daily on June 22. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In August 1994, I was attending an FBI sports presentation conference. The bureau has a program where…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Edward J. Snowden was supposed to leave Moscow today for a flight to Havana. He never arrived. U.S. authorities were trying to determine this morning whether the former national security contractor accused of espionage has made alternative travel plans or whether Russian leaders took him into custody, The New York Times reports….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the murder and racketeering trial of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger continues today, a former FBI supervisor is expected to testify that he and another agent traded secrets with the ruthless White Hill Gang, Reuters reports. John Morris, who led the FBI’s local organized crime squad in Boston in the…
