By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The old saying goes: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The FBI, pointing to a lesson in history when power corrupted, has been taking about 1,000 special agents each year from the FBI Training Academy to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington as part of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has issued a bulletin to local police saying there’s sympathetic chatter on the Internet regarding the arrests of the Christian militia members, but no indication of copycats, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit on Monday unsealed an indictment charging nine members of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Tennessee white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday of plotting to kill Barack Obama during the presidential campaign and planning to kill dozens of other black people, AP reported. Daniel Cowart, 21, of Bells, Tenn., pleaded guilty Monday. His co-defendant, Paul Schlesselman of Helena-West Helena, Ark. pleaded guilty in January, AP reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman, the FBI’s associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch, has some added duties. On top of her current job, she will also become assistant director of the FBI’s Training Division. The FBI said in “her new role, she will assume additional responsibilities for all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI, the Inspector General for Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection are locked in a turf battle that seems to be delaying investigations into corruption among U.S. Border and immigration employees, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. The journalism organization, which wrote the story for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ugly byproduct of Mexico’s drug war reared its head Sunday in the worst of ways: 10 students on their way to get government scholarships were murdered at a roadblock in the state of Durango apparently set up by drug traffickers, the Tribune Newspapers reported. Half the victims were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A veteran California FBI agent who investigated white collar crimes has agreed to plead guilty to illegally accessing FBI files to help an acquaintance collect a debt, according to court records. A plea agreement filed by the U.S. Attorneys Office in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif. said that agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Over the years, many people have impersonated FBI agents, but few have gone as far as Brenna Marie Reilly. She even hired an assistant who worked out of her apartment. Reilly, 29, of Arlington, Va., now faces a federal indictment in Virginia. She is free but in her mother’s…
