By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-First Lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at age 93, had fans in the Secret Service. Ex-Secret Service agent Mike Shannon, who protected the Fords, and showed up Saturday at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids to pay respect, told WOOD-TV that Betty Ford was like “a mother” to…
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Anonymous Steals Info From FBI Contractor (CBR Security) Gut Instinct Gets New Meaning for TSA (Boston Herald) FBI Says Loan Scams a Growing Problem (Fox) TSA’s Forced Indignities Don’t Make Us Safer (Bloomberg) ATF Tampa Division Walked Guns to Honduras (Fox)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the website Gang Land News, offers nothing but high praise in an article this week about FBI agent David Sebastiani, who went undercover to bring down some Philly mobsters. Capeci wrote that Sebastiani, who works out the New York division and is a certified…
Update By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com William Newell, who headed ATF’s Phoenix Division during the controversial operation dubbed Fast and Furious, won’t be going to Mexico as ATF’s attache after all. The agency has decided to to nix that assignment before he even heads south. Instead, he’s been named special assistant to the ATF Assistant Director…
By Josh Gerstein Politico WASHINGTON — The unfolding scandal over a gunrunning investigation allegedly botched by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could do what years of criticism of the long-beleaguered agency never quite accomplished — result in its demise. That, at least, is the view of some former ATF employees and advocates…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The James “Whitey” Bulger story ain’t going away any time soon. The latest: A Las Vegas man is livid. The Boston Herald reports that the man claims the FBI ignored his tip in 2008 that he spotted Bulger on the Santa Monica Pier and alerted “America’s Most Wanted.” “The FBI should…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Terracotta plaques and other ancient artifacts stolen in Iraq by defense contractors in 2004 were returned Thursday by the FBI to the Iraqi government in a ceremony at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. The FBI said it seized the invaluable items during a 2006 investigation. The items included two pottery…
