Debra Evans Smith/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Debra Evans Smith, who worked on the high-profile spy case involving FBI agent Robert Hanssen, was named special agent in charge of the Administrative Division at FBI’s Washington Field Office, the agency announced Monday. Smith most recently served as a special assistant to FBI Director…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One of the federal prosecutors in the botched Sen. Ted Stevens public corruption case in Washington committed suicide over the weekend, NPR reported. Carrie Johnson of NPR reported that that prosecutor Nick Marsh took his own life. Marsh was one of the prosecutors in the Stevens case that imploded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A probe into the nationwide FBI test cheating scandal cited in an Inspector General report released Monday began at the Washington field office, just blocks from the Capitol. The report, which cited widespread cheating on an open book exam nationwide, said the FBI Inspection Division in September 2009 received…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, the Justice Department’s Inspector General report released Monday found that a number of FBI agents cheated on a test on bureau policies for conducting surveillance on Americans. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine says he found “significant abuses and cheating” and that people worked together or got…
By The New York Times Editorial Page The day after Thanksgiving, 2002, was a slow day in the Pittsburgh office of the F.B.I., so a supervisor sent a special agent to a rally against the threatened war in Iraq to look for any terrorism suspects who might be there, just to ”see what they are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is making moves to try and get a better handle on the activities of terrorists. Charlie Savage of the The New York Times reports that federal law enforcement and national security officials plan next year to seek new regulations from Congress that would allow agencies to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The FBI is making a new move to try and bring its troubled computer project called the “Sentinel” under control, according to the Washington Post’s Capital Business report. The program has been plagued by endless glitches. The paper reports that the FBI has decided to bring the project in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the Mexican-U.S. drug war, money still corrupts on both sides of the border. The latest: A U.S. border inspector was charged Friday with taking more than $50,000 to let drug-filled vehicles from Mexico pass through his lane, the Associated Press reported. Authorities charged that Oscar Osbaldo Ortiz Martinez,30, a Customs…
