By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI soon plans to give its employees a test on bureau policies for conducting surveillance on Americans. The test, if you recall, is called the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. (DIOG) Last time the test was given for the DIOG, things didn’t go so well. In fact, a scandal developed….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mystery man known as D.B. Cooper, who parachuted from a plane in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom money, probably died during his jump, according to FBI agents on the case, Ronald Kessler of Newsmax reports. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach was the case agent on the case, reported Kessler, who just…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently the feds wanted to make a big stink out this case. Two men from China — Shaoxiong Zhou, 42, and Shaoxia Huang, 33 — have pleaded guilty U.S. District Court in Brooklyn — to trafficking in counterfeit perfume. Zhou pleaded guilty Friday. His co-defendant pleaded on Aug. 3. Authorities said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The push back continues against an ATF regulation that would require gun dealers in four Mexican border states to report multiple gun sales of semi-automatic rifles. An Albuquerque gun store has become the latest to file suit against the U.S. government to try and block the practice from taking effect on…
