By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gerald Roberts, Jr. has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division at the Washington Field Office and Timothy Gallagher will head up the Newark office, the FBI announced. Roberts most recently served as the section chief of the Terrorist Financing Operations Section in the Counterterrorism Division at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday announced several changes at the top of the food chain at the FBI. David Bowdich, who has served as the head of the Los Angeles FBI, has been named associate deputy director of the FBI at headquarters. He will oversee the FBI’s non-operational branches…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF agent Scott Sweetow has been named deputy director for the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC). The intergovernmental agency, which is based at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., coordinates efforts to gather and share intelligence about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), helps disarm and disrupt IEDs, link them to their makers…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew McCabe, the associate deputy director, has moved up to the second spot in the FBI, replacing Deputy Director Mark Giuliano, who is retiring, the FBI announced. As deputy director, McCabe will oversee all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities and serve as acting director in the director’s absence. McCabe…
After overseeing investigations into mass shootings and the Boston Marathon shooting, the retired director will have a much more fun assignment.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ICE agent who was hailing a cab with a fellow agent in Miami Beach on Jan. 15, and was struck by a hit-and-run driver who hopped the curb, died Monday from his injuries, the NBC station in Miami reports. The driver, Jordana Rosales, 21, has been arrested and charged in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been named the “settlement master” to settle hundreds of Volkswagen lawsuits, Reuters reports. Reuters reports that a federal judge in California overseeing more than 500 lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG over its excess diesel emissions named Mueller to that post earlier in the week….
William Weyand Turner, a former FBI agent who criticized J. Edgar Hoover in several books, died Dec. 26.
