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FBI Names Michelle Ann Jupina Assist. Dir. of Records Management Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michelle Ann Jupina, the deputy assistant director for operations support in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, has been named assistant director of the agency’s Records Management Division at headquarters. Prior to her stint at headquarters, Jupina served for two years as special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office’s…
Six Decades Later, FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List Still Hard to Crack
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
Ex-FBI Agent Who Worked Espionage Authors Spy Novel
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Thomas R. Stutler, a newly minted author, says he likes fiction readers to get a sense authors know what they’re talking about. “My goal when writing fiction is always to make sure the reader can tell the book was written by somebody who was in the game… Every sentence,…
FBI Interviewing Libyans in U.S. as War Rages On
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Signs of concern about a backlash from the U.S. actions in Libya are surfacing. Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has started questioning Libyans in the U.S. to look “Libyan-backed spies or terrorists, and collect any information that might help allied military operations.” The…
Journalists Accuse FBI Employee of Being out of Control and Striking Them With Her Car at National Press Club
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI employee at headquarters is being accused by two Voice of America journalists in Washington of road rage that included intentionally striking them with her car and carrying one a short distance on her hood, the Washington Examiner reports. The paper reports that a lawsuit filed Monday by…
Atty. Gen. Holder Says Ill. Prison Won’t Hold Gitmo Detainees
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Monday gave assurances that a state prison the feds are interested in buying to hold maximum-security inmates won’t house detainees from Guantanamo Bay. In an April 4 letter to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Holder wrote of the Thomson Correctional Center: “While we…
Brenda Heck Named Head of Counterterrorism at FBI’s Washington Field Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brenda L. Heck, deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division. Prior to entering the FBI, she was a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 1985-88. In 1988, Heck joined…
Blago Asks for FBI Interview Summaries of President Obama
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorneys for ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich want prosecutors to turn over FBI interview summaries of President Obama. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the attorneys asked for the documents known as FBI 302 reports so they can use the information to cross examine a government witness….