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FBI Joins Hunt in Drive-by That Wounded Anchorage Cop
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined local and state police in the hunt for whoever is responsible for a drive-by shooting that wounded an Anchorage police officer on Saturday, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The officer, Jason Allen, 47, was shot five times and remained hospitalized, the paper wrote. To read more click…
Ex-FBI Official Says FBI Should Get Some Credit For Fighting Terrorism
James Kallstrom is a former FBI Assistant Director and a member of the FBI Director’s Advisory Group. He was also a director of the New York Homeland Security Agency. By JAMES KALLSTROM New York Post Op-Ed Ever since 9/11, critics have suggested that the FBI isn’t up to its task as our nation’s lead counterterrorism…
FBI Creates Email for Tips for Serial Killings in Virginia in 1980s
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has created an e-mail account to collect tips on at least eight slayings between 1986 and 1989 in Virginia known as the Colonial Parkway Murders, the Washington Examiner is reporting. None of the murders along the 23-mile stretch between Jamestown and Yorktown have been solved and the…
The Latest from the Once Friendly Skies: FBI Arrested Intoxicated Passenger Who Locked Himself in Bathroom
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
Ex-FBI Agent and ticklethewire.com Columnist Greg Stejskal Says FBI Knew About McGwire’s Steroid Use Way Back
Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells ESPN.com that he didn’t need baseball slugger Mark McGwire’s confession on Monday to know he was taking illegal steroids. Stejskal says informants told the FBI about McGwire’s doping regimen two decades ago and added…
Michael Ward Named Head of Newark FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael B. Ward has been plucked from the FBI mothership to head the agency’s Newark Division, starting in March. Ward, currently the assistant director of Counterrorism Division’s Operations Branch II at headquarters, started his FBI career in 1988 and spent the first nine years in the Dallas office dealing…
Muslim Parents Coming Forward Against Extremism is More Common Than Public Realizes, Muslim-American Leaders Say
Publisher Osama Siblani By Allan Lengel For Sphere.com (A new AOL news site) WASHINGTON — The dramatic, fast-paced events of recent weeks that had parents contacting the FBI and CIA about their children’s links to radical Muslims may clear the way for other reluctant parents to come forward, say key figures in the Muslim-American community….
Website Challenges Conservative Columnist Over the Firing of a D.C. FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The news website TPMmuckraker is challenging an assertion by conservative columnist Frank Gaffney in a recent op-ed piece that D.C. FBI agent John Guandolo lost his job because of fierce opposition to radical Islamic ideology, not because he was sleeping with a key witness in the ex-Congressman William Jefferson…