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Man Says FBI Apologized After Raiding Home in Connection with Times Square Car Bomb Probe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has apologized to a New York man whose Long Island home was raided in connection to the Times Square car bomb incident, the man said, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that Mohammad Iqbal said agents returned his Pakistani passport and other items seized during a raid at…
White Powder Letters Sent to FBI, U.S. Atty and IRS Offices Out West
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The old white powder in the envelope trick continues to scare people and disrupt work places even though none have ever proved dangerous since the 2001 attacks that killed five people and sickened 17. The latest: White powder envelopes, that were later found to be harmless, were discovered Monday in eight…
Retired Texas Border Patrol Agent Says Agents Have Been Denied Service in Restaurants in El Paso
By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com Retired Border Patrol agent and field operations supervisor John Hubert tells the El Paso Times that it’s not always easy being an agent in El Paso. “I learned early on that if you’re a Border Patrol agent in El Paso… basically you’re an object of scorn to about 75 percent of…
FBI Says Millionaire Supposedly Had Info on Sex Parties and Mentioned Kennedys, Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old multi-millionaire who had once been married to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, reportedly had “considerable information” about sex parties at a New York HotelĀ involving the Kennedys and some famous entertainers, according to a 1965 FBI file released Monday. The July 1965 FBI file, part of a ream of…
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Father Phoned FBI to Check on Rumors of Son; Tipster Told FBI Mob Was Trying to Set Up Teddy and Robert Kennedy and Peter Lawford
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI files released Monday on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy show that Joseph P. Kennedy, the senator’s father, felt close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to check on a rumor regarding his son. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke…
S.F. U.S. Attorney’s Office Gets Bad News in Barry Bonds Case
Barry Bonds/facebook By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Home run slugger Barry Bonds just keeps knocking them out of the park in the legal arena. On Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a federal judge’s ruling that bars three steroid tests from being introduced into his perjury case, a ruling that…
Probe Into NJ Jihadists Started With Tip on FBI Website
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI had been tracking two suspected New Jersey jihadists since 2006 after getting a tip on its website, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. “Every time they access the internet, all they look for is all those terrorist videos about the Islam holly war and where they kill U.S. soldiers and other…
Column: Will Republicans Embarrass Themselves With John Pistole Nomination for TSA?
Chris Battle is a former official at Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DEA. He is currently managing partner of the Adfero Group Homeland Security Practice, a Washington public relations firm. By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON — Will John Pistole, the FBI deputy director nominated to lead the TSA, go the way of…