By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The massive overhaul of the FBI’s computerized case management system may not be as big a mess as it seems — at least that’s what Director Robert S. Mueller III told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday. The website Main Justice reported that Mueller said the delays on the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in El Paso deliberated for less than three hours Wednesday before convicting FBI agent John Thomas Shipley of dealing weapons without a permit and lying to ATF agents about the sales, the El Paso Times reported. ATF agents arrested Shipley, 40, last year after tracing back to him…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A contract linguist with the FBI in Maryland who pleaded guilty in December to disclosing classified information to a blogger, has had his law license suspended in New York, according to the New York Law Journal. The Law Journal reported that the Appellate Division, 3rd Department declined to set aside the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Washington Post is reporting that senior administration officials aren’t all that happy with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr and have privately expressed dismay about his job performance. The Post reports that administration officials have complained about Holder’s “tin ear in his decision-making and his public remarks.” The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama announced a slew of nominations Wednesday for U.S. Attorney spots around the country. The U.S. Attorney nominations include: Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. for the Middle District of Louisiana. Pamela Cothran Marsh for the Northern District of Florida; Zane David Memeger for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Peter J. Smith…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama, appearing as if he’s trying to play catch up, nominated six U.S. Marshals. They include: Arthur Darrow Baylor for the Middle District of Alabama. Michael Robert Bladel for the Southern District of Iowa. Kevin Anthony Carr for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Kevin Charles Harrison for the Middle District…
Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com. , was an FBI agent for 31 years before retiring as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor, Mi. office. He was one of the FBI SWAT team leaders who searched the Michigan farm of James Nichols, brother of convicted Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols, in 1995 after the…
Listen my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy Five…. Longfellow’s poem forever immortalized Paul Revere’s ride. What the poem does not say is that Revere’s mission that night was to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British soldiers were coming to…
