By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has changed dramatically since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, with a heavy emphasis on counterterrorism. Not all the agents have liked the change, but it’s a reality that was brought about by the attacks and pressure from the public and Capitol Hill. To chronicle that change, the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds in Alabama will get a second bite out of the apple after their high-profile gambling corruption case imploded last week. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson set a retrial date of Oct. 3. However, he has not yet decided whether there will be more than one trial, the Associated Press…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The anthrax attacks of 2001 have left the U.S. with a collective paranoia about white powder and mail. The latest: Authorities temporarily shut the offices of three Alaska Congressional members on Monday after their Fairbanks offices received suspicious packages with white powder, Reuters news service reported. It ended up being harmless….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Agent John Giacalone is leaving the mothership at headquarters in D.C. and heading north to become special agent in charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office Counterterrorism Division. Giacalone most recently served as the section chief of the Counterterrorism Division’s Domestic Terrorism Strategic Operations Section at FBI headquarters. Giacalone is…
By The Daily Home Editorial Rather than settle any questions of guilt or innocence, the acquittals and mistrials returned last week in Alabama’s gambling corruption trial have only exacerbated mistrust of state government and the legal system. What are we to make of a trial that charged nine people, including four state legislators, with 125…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities say a man arrested Friday for planting an improvised explosive device under a gas pipeline in Oklahoma wasn’t connected to a terrorist group and was not a disgruntled worker, according to CNN. Daniel Wells Herriman, 40, was arrested Seminole County, Ok. Two employees of Enerfin Resources spotted the device…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. authorities have expanded their probe into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps phone hacking allegations, but so far have come up with no hard evidence of wrongdoing, the Wall Street Journal reports. Reporters Cassell Bryan-Low and Devlin Barrett reports that U.S. investigators so far have found nothing concrete to back allegations written…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI report shows that mortgage fraud appears to be on the rise. The FBI said it had 3,129 pending mortgage fraud investigations in 2010, up 12 percent from 2009 and up 90 percent from 2008 when the economy tanked and the real estate market was already in dire straights. The…
