Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Harvey C. Flemister 85, a 27-year veteran of the bureau, died of congestive heart failure March 18 at his home in Silver Springs, Md. The Washington Post reports Flemister retired in 1977 as chief of the FBI intelligence division’s liaison section. Having started his career as a special agent in…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It’s all fun and games til your toy purchases may be supporting international drug cartels. An 18-month investigation of L.A.company, Woody’s Toys Inc., by Homeland Security’s ICE and the DEA’s Southern California Drug Task Force yielded video of employees receiving bricks of cash in fast food chain parking lots, among other incriminating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. law enforcement officials continue to trek to Israel to learn a thing or two about dealing with terrorism and homeland security. The latest group included Assistant D.C. police chief Diane Groomes and U.S. Park Police Deputy Chief Robert MacLean of the U.S. Park Police, the Associated Press reported. The week-long…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shawn Henry, the FBI’s top cyber cop up until his recent retirement, is putting his FBI skill to use in the private sector. The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett reports that ex-FBI official Shawn Henry is joining an Irvine, Calif. upstart computer security firm called CrowdStrike Inc. The Journal reports that…
By Amanda Palleschi Government Executive The FBI needs to develop a long-term strategy for filling counterterrorism division vacancies, a government watchdog found. Although the FBI has made some progress addressing a 40 percent vacancy rate — first reported in 2005 — in certain parts of its counterterrorism division, the bureau has yet to establish sufficient…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service has an interest in rocker Ted Nugent, and not for his music. Yahoo News! is reporting that the Secret Service is looking into his violent rant at the NRA convention in St. Louis over the weekend. “I’ll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the…
By Spencer S. Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted Mellnik The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. An FBI special agent was testifying in the government’s high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center. Frederic Whitehurst, a…
UPDATE, Wed, 8 a.m.: CBS News is reporting that there were up to 20 prostitutes involved with the Secret Service agents and military aides, and that the Secret Service wants to polygraph the people involved. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “He better be taking this seriously if he wants to…
