By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Wassell, a former FBI agent who went on to become well-known Atlanta TV news anchor, has died at age 84 in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Wassell worked as an agent from 1951 to 1960 in Chicago and Miami and later went on to become an anchorman at WSB-tv in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has taken over an investigation into an alleged death threat aimed at Democratic Rep. Brian Baird of Washington state over the healthcare furor, the Columbian newspaper reported. The paper reported that the U.S. Capitol Police, which had been investigating the matter, confirmed that the FBI was probing…
This probably won’t be enough to block his confirmation, but it certainly doesn’t help. By Ed O’Keefe The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s airport security officers received a censure from the FBI in 1988 after asking a San Diego police officer to run a background check on his ex-wife’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com History sometimes has a way of righting itself — even if it takes a while. That seemed to be the case Monday when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials returned to Vienna’s Jewish community a 16th Century Hebrew Bible that had been looted by the Nazis 71 years ago during “Kristallnacht”,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s Baltimore field office will be named after agent Sam Hicks, who was killed last Nov. 19 in a shooting in the Pittsburgh area while serving an arrest warrant in a drug case, the Associated Press reported. The AP reported that Hicks’ wife Brooke and their son Noah…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James McTighe, the son of a CIA case officer, will take charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, replacing Timothy J. Fuhrman, who was recently named special agent in charge of the Mobile, Ala. office. McTighe had last served as special assistant for deputy director John Pistole at…
