By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent James F. McGuire, who joined the bureau in the 1950s in Connecticut and went on to specialize in counterintelligence in Washington, died late last month at an Arlington, Va. hospital, the Washington Post reported. He had leukemia and was 82. The Post reported that McGuire, after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The year 2010 was full of almost-disastrous terrorist acts from the Times Square Bomber to the the Portland teen who tried to detonate a car bomb during a Christmas-lighting ceremony in Oregon, only to find out it was an FBI sting. Not everyone agreed with the FBI tactics when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI may have blown the cover of a mob informant by being a little careless, the Gang Land News website reported. Jerry Capici of Gang Land News, a former mob writer for the New York Daily News, reports that the cover of mob associate Howard Santos may have been blown…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Good or bad, one thing is certain: The WikiLeaks documents are pretty fascinating. One of the latest ones of interest has surfaced in some publications including the Washington Post, which reports that Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was trying to put the squeeze on the DEA to wiretap his political…
