By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com It’s official. The Senate by a 100-0 vote officially extended FBI Director Robert Mueller’s term Wednesday by two years, the Associated Press reported. The vote — a sign of the confidence the Senate has in Mueller — came a day after President Obama signed legislation that opened the way for Mueller…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com OUCH! Make it stop. It’s becoming all too painful to see the Congressional probe into ATF’s highly-flawed operation dubbed Fast and Furious. Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been leading the charge into the investigation of the operation that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA on Tuesday announced two narco-terrorism stings out of New York that authorities say shows the growing link between drugs and terrorism. Authorities say the case involved Hizballah, the group based in Lebanon and the Taliban. “Today’s indictments provide fresh evidence of what many of us have been saying for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI can now automatically share information with local, state, regional and other law-enforcement agencies, the website InformationWeek reported. The publication reported that Raytheon said it finished — albeit late — its final phase of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) system, InformationWeek reported The system enables the FBI to distribute information…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge was none to happy to hear that the FBI intentionally failed for several hours to tell a man suspected of planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., why he had been arrested, the Associated Press reported. He was also not immediately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More controversy surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. The Los Angeles Times is reporting a discrepancy between what ATF and the FBI have said about the guns that were sold under the operation, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen or “straw purchasers”, with the hopes of tracing the…
