Breaking News: Retired FBI Agent in Indiana Charged in Child Porn Case

  By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Indianapolis announced Monday. Ex-agent Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, of Carmel, Ind., was charged in a criminal complaint, authorities said. He retired in 2008. “The mission of our Project Safe Childhood initiative is…

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Secret Service Director Sullivan to Testify in Senate Hearing on Prostitution Scandal

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Senator Joe Lieberman announced a Senate inquiry into the recent Secret Service prostitution scandal on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, reports the Washington Post. Nine Secret Service employees have been fired for misconduct during an April mission in Columbia, raising questions and triggering new rules regarding culture and conduct within the…

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Column: The FBI’s Struggle to Transform Into an Intelligence Agency

Henry Crumpton served as U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism from 2005 to 2007.   By AMB. HENRY A. CRUMPTON Politico Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI, the world’s leading law enforcement agency, has labored to transform itself into an intelligence organization — while preserving its policing pre-eminence. This challenge has proved difficult. There are major…

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Attorney General Eric Holder Honors 362 Fallen Peace Officers at Annual Candlelight Vigil

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com While most of us were celebrating Mother’s Day on Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder commemorated the service of fallen peace officers in an annual candlelight vigil, as part of National Police Week, reports the Justice Dept and PR Newswire. Each May 13, fallen officers’ newly engraved names are formally dedicated  and read…

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