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Lead Agent in Ted Stevens Case Under Ethical Review
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mess from the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens isn’t over yet. The website Main Justice reports that the Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the lead FBI agent in the case, Mary Beth Kepner. New of the probe surfaced when FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified…
Breaking News: 1 Day After Going on FBI’s Top 10 Wanted List, Adam Mayes is Found Dead
By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com That was quick. One day after the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List, accused kidnapper and murderer Adam Mayes was found dead Thursday in Union County Miss., CNN reported. He reportedly shot and killed himself. Mayes was accused of kidnapping a Tennessee mother and her three daughters. The mother…
Obit: Former Attny Gen Nicholas Katzenbach Championed Civil Rights, Key Aide in Kennedy and Johnson Admins
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Nicholas DeBelleville Katzenbach, who worked as a lawyer for the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration and became Attorney General under the Johnson regime, only to bump heads with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, died Tuesday at age 90. Serving a crucial role in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, it was Katzenbach…
FBI Agent Ralph Boelter Who Helped Investigate Valerie Plame Case to Head LA Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph S. Boelter, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at headquarters, who also helped investigate the leak case involving CIA agent Valerie Plame, has landed one of the more coveted spots in the field. Bolter will take over the Los Angeles division as assistant director in charge. Boelter began his…
U.S. Atty Who Went After Edwards Wins Republican Nomination for Congress in N.C.
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com While once-presidential hopeful John Edwards stands trial in Greensborough N.C. for campaign finance violations, the U.S. Attorney who secured his indictment celebrated a different kind of victory 75 miles down the road in Raleigh Tuesday. George Holding won the Republican nomination for Congress in North Carolina this week, purportedly riding the coattails…
FBI Director Says Bomb Plot is Reason to Renew Electronic Surveillance Powers
By Jordy Yager The Hill WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI on Wednesday used a recently thwarted bomb plot to press Congress to extend the agency’s ability to spy on foreigners abroad without a warrant. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a panel of House lawmakers that some of the surveillance provisions, which are set…
Bryant to Head St. Louis FBI Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…
Suspected Killer Fills Last Vacancy on FBI’s Most Wanted List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a great deal of deliberation, the FBI has filled the final vacancy in its Ten Most Wanted fugitive list, the agency announced Wednesday, Adam Christopher Mayes, wanted in connection with the kidnapping last month of a mother, Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her three daughters in Tennessee, has been added…