By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Buffalo police are investigating a Monday morning home robbery that reportedly involved at least four men who were wearing FBI badges and jackets, radio station WBEN reported. A man was shot in the hand and his wife was pistol-whipped. The station reported that the man claimed he was stopped by four…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Motor City is in for some entertainment and potentially a long long stretch of bad publicity. Why? Because ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and four others charged in a federal public corruption indictment may not go before a jury — if they choose that route — until the summer of 2012,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The bulldog-like mug of J. Edgar Hoover has long been synonymous with the FBI, a world-renowned law enforcement agency forever hyper-sensitive about its public image. Still, Hoover’s legend has taken its lumps over the years. Now comes the latest: an upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo…
By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON — As a former reporter and, later, as a spokesperson for federal law agencies, I grew used to responses from criminal investigators anytime a reporter asked about who the culprit might be or what kind of motive the suspected culprit might have. The universal answer was: “We cannot comment…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III hopped a plane to Arizona to deal with the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed a federal judge and seriously wounded a member of Congress. Sure, Mueller could have stayed back in Washington and gotten briefed regularly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mi.), a former FBI agent, criticized the decision by President Obama to dispatch FBI director Robert S. Mueller to Arizona after the mass shooting on Saturday, according to the radio station WHMI in Livingston County, Mi., outside Detroit. “He didn’t need to be in Arizona to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Frank Montoya, Jr., the section chief for the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters, who worked on the Oklahoma bombing and Robert Hanssen spy case, has been named head of the bureau’s Honolulu Division. Montoya joined the FBI in 1991 and was first stationed in the San Antonio Field Office,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Star New York cop Joseph Herbert, who cracked the Zodiac copycat killer case in 1996, has been assigned to work as an expert on the Homeland Security Committee, the New York Daily News reported. The Daily News reported that Herbert becomes the first New York cop to be assigned to a…
