By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last October in Orlando, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the heads of the ATF field offices gathered for a SAC meeting. It was there where it was announced that William Newell, head of the Phoenix office, would become the ATF’s attache to Mexico. Newell, an up and comer…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sign of the ongoing hostile feelings of Mexican drug gangs toward the DEA surfaced last week. The New York Daily News reports that a Mexican drug gang spray-painted a message Friday near a school in Chihuahua, about 220 miles from the U.S. border: “Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These Tweets got the Secret Service’s attention. CBS News reports that the Secret Service said Monday it will investigate and try to figure out who hacked into Fox’s political Twitter account and posted multiple Tweets claiming President Obama had been assassinated in Iowa and the shooter was unknown. CBS reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-FBI agent is dismissing allegations by an informant that former Mississippi Ku Klux Klan leader Sam Bowers said he had a tipster inside the FBI during the civil rights movement, who disclosed which Klansmen were talking to the bureau, according to Jackson Clarion-Ledger. The paper reported that, according to FBI…
Michael Kortan is assistant director for public affairs for the FBI in Washington. His letter to the editor is in response to a June 19 Editorial in the New York Times. By Michael P. Kortan New York Times Letter to Editor WASHINGTON — The purpose of the attorney general guidelines and F.B.I. policy contained in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Mike Clark, who helped bring down two corrupt Connecticut mayors and a governor wants to go to Congress. The Associated Press reports that Clark, 56, has announced his candidacy for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, which includes wealthy Hartford suburbs and cities such as Waterbury and Danbury. AP reported that…
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST ATF Finds Itself in a Rough Patch (NY Times) Roger Clemens Expected in Court Tuesday (NY Daily News) Hemingway Driven to Suicide by FBI Surveillance (Times of India) Ex-FBI Agent Jodi Weis Snags Chicago Crime Job (NBC Chicago) With Bulger in Boston Beware of Robinhood Myth (WPRI) Casey Anthony Jury Resumes…
