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Off-Duty Secret Service Agent Fires at Peeping Tom
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Being a Peeping Tom can be dangerous business. The Associated Press reports that an an off-duty Secret Service agent fired a shot Sunday night at someone he susupected of videotaping his daughter through a window at their home at Mercer Island in the Seattle area. AP, citing police, reported that the…
Hoover Had it Out for LA Times Reporter Jack Nelson: Feared He Would Report He was a Homosexual
By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times As this week’s release date of the movie “J. Edgar” approaches, more info seems to be surfacing about the legendary FBI director. The latest: Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times reports that Hoover became obsessed in the early 1970s with a new reporter in Washington, Jack Nelson…
FBI’s #2 Guy Sean Joyce Brings Intensity to the Job
By Jerry Markon Washington Post WASHINGTON — In the middle of the Pakistani night, near the border with Afghanistan, a team of FBI agents dressed in native garb descended on a hotel room. One of those agents, Sean M. Joyce, kicked in the door, tackled a screaming Pakistani man and threw him to the ground….
Bush to FBI Director Mueller Right After Sept. 11; What is the FBI Doing to Prevent the Next Attack?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a speech Friday in Washington before the National Symposium for United States Court of Appeals Judges, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III shared a very interesting exchange he had with President Bush right after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “A few days after the attacks, I was briefing President Bush…
National Fraternal Order of Police Back Atty. Gen. Eric Holder
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., whose likely to get a grilling from Republicans over ATF’s Operation Fast Furious when he appears Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, got some welcome backing on Thursday. Politico reports that the National Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of sworn law enforcement officers,…
Identity of Informant in Viktor Bout Case Revealed; He Had a Long, Lucrative Career and Made $9 Million-Plus
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After earning more than $9 million over the course of 15 years as one of the government’s highest paid informants in history, Carlos Sagastume unveiled his identity at the New York trial of international arms dealer Viktor Bout, reports the Associated Press. Bout’s month-long trial ended in a Manhattan federal court…
Defense for Suspected Terrorist Seeks Bail, Claims Mental Illness
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When in doubt, play the crazy card. A lawyer for Rezwan Ferdaus, the 26-year-old Muslim American arrested in September for plotting to fly explosive-packed remote control planes into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, suggested in court on Friday that the FBI ignored signs of the defendant’s mental illness during their investigation…
ATF, ICE, Local Police Bust $20M Tobacco Op
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Got a smoke? The ATF closed a three-year joint investigation by the US Attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia and District of South Carolina, the ATF, the IRS, ICE and the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Department with multiple arrests in a scheme to move and tobacco illegally between Virginia and South…