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Special Agent Leonard Davey Spent Entire 24-Year Career in City He Loved
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not many FBI agents are as lucky as Leonard Davey. Special Agent Davey spent his entire 24-year career tracking down criminals in the city he loves – San Diego. While most agents agents move around for work, the San Francisco native stayed in San Diego and investigated mobsters, corrupt politicians, law enforcement and…
FBI Under J. Edgar Hoover Hid Bad News about Agent with Help of Supportive Media
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was never as it seemed, and supportive reporters had no qualms changing the narrative to make the bureau look good, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Take April 6, 1939, when an inexperienced FBI agent shot and killed a bank robber, Bennie Dickson, under questionable circumstances. The agency…
Second Shooting Spree at Fort Hood Raises Question: Should Military Leaders Carry Guns at Bases?
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After two deadly shooting rampages at Ford Hood in Texas, some congressional members said military leaders should be permitted to carry firearms on the base, the New York Post reports. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul called it “a common sense idea.” “That would be a deterrent, No. 1 — and No….
Congressional Leaders Call on FBI, Others to Investigate 5-Year-Old Peace Corps Murder in Africa
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators haven’t made much headway in the brutal murder of a Peace Corps volunteer after she claimed a local Peace Corps employee was sexually assaulting girls where she worked in the West African country of Benin five years ago, WPRO.com reports. On Thursday, 184 members of Congress from both sides of the…
FBI, Other Law Enforcement Prepare for Mall Attack During Drill in Sacramento
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The hope is they’ll never have to use their training. But in a country where the once unthinkable is happening, local and federal law enforcement can’t take any chances. The Sacramento Bee reports that local and federal law enforcement conducted a training drill at the Westfield Roseville Galleria to prepare for the…
DOJ Finds ‘Strained’ Relationship Between FBI, Organized Crime Drug Task Force
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents were retaliated against for voicing concerns over operations at the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Fusion Center, a DOJ inspector general concluded. AllGov.com reports that OCDETF’s leadership also wasn’t cooperative. The report described the relationship between the FBI agents in the task force and the center’s leaders as “strained.”…
DEA Worried About Fido Or Running Out of Reasons to Keep Marijuana Illegal?
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is the DEA running out of ideas to reverse the seismic shift in attitudes about marijuana? DEA Chief Michele Leonhart told congressional members this week that pot can kill Fido, citing evidence that dogs have died after eating marijuana-infused food, the Huffington Post reports. “There was just an article last week, and…