By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kenneth Melson, acting head of ATF, is expected to resign under pressure in coming days, CNN reported. At the same time, Andrew Traver, head of the Chicago ATF, who has been nominated by the White House to take over on a permanent basis, is set to meet Tuesday with Attorney Gen….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI isn’t giving up on finding the ever-elusive Top 10 fugitive, Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who is wanted for 19 murders. The latest: the FBI is launching what it calls a “unique new publicity campaign” by focusing on Catherine Elizabeth Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Bulger. She has not…
By The Washington Examiner Editorial Page WASHINGTON — Credible media reports have it that Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will get his walking papers this week as a result of his approval of Operation Fast and Furious, aka “Gunwalker.” That’s the program in which ATF purposely allowed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent turned author Bob Hammer explains why he turned to writing. “In the original Rocky movie Rocky tells Adrian he boxes because he can’t sing or dance. I can identify,” Hammer wrote in a column posted on the website Big Hollywood. “After twenty-six years as an FBI agent, I now…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The wife of Robert Levinson, the ex-FBI agent who went missing from an Iranian island in 2007, posted a letter “To my dear husband Bob” on the Internet on Friday to commemorate their 37th wedding anniversary. The letter from wife Christina noted how painful the whole ordeal has been. The U.S….
By The New York Times Editorial Page The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than George W….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald quickly became a household name. For the most part, many to this day, have never heard of former FBI agent James P. Hosty. But there was a well-known link between the two. Hosty, who died of prostate cancer on June 10 at age 86…
