By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the past two weeks, law enforcement in Arizona has found two tunnels near the Mexican border, the Arizona Republic reported. The paper reported that authorities are becoming increasingly concerned that that drug smugglers are turning more to tunnels as a way to smuggle drugs as the U.S. tightens things up…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The new acting director of ATF, B. Todd Jones, is no stranger to federal law enforcement. In fact Jones is on his second go around as U.S. Attorney in Minnesota. Jones, who will remain the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota while serving as acting head of ATF, was first appointed to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Many ATF agents on Tuesday welcomed the news that acting Director Ken Melson was stepping down, saying his departure marked a step in the right direction in trying to revive a demoralized agency. “I think everyone knew this was coming,” said one veteran ATF agent, who spoke on the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There’s a sneaker and jersey store in Mansfield, Ohio that was dealing with much more than sneakers and jerseys. In fact, the feds were running the store and buying illegal guns and drugs from bad guys as part of a year-long sting operation that netted 60 arrests, the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Tensions seem to be heating up between African authorities and the FBI, reports Afrigque en ligne. Nigerian police and the State Security Service say they feel sidelined by FBI agents’ investigation of the recent UN-building bombing in the nation’s capital Abuja. Though security and intelligence agents in Nigeria said they…
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the help of a prisoner, who agreed to wear a wire, the FBI on Monday busted a 73-year-old man who wanted to have a Massachusetts prosecutor killed. An affidavit by FBI agent Michael E. Dwyer said the FBI first received a letter from an inmate at the Worcester County House…
