By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the one year anniversary of the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the family issued a statement that included a sharp rebuke of ATF and the Justice Department. “Brian’s death has been extremely difficult to accept. As most know, we had to learn from the news media that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas E. Brandon, the straight-shooting, well respected and extremely able veteran of ATF, who was sent around the country this year to try and mend some of the agencies pressing problems, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed Of The Year for 2011. Brandon, an ex-Marine who is currently ATF’s number two person…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An Aryan Nations leader of fleeting TV fame was sentenced Wednesday for taking more money than he was legally entitled to from a government he despised, the Associated Press reports. August Kreis III, who appeared multiple times on the Jerry Springer show and in a 2005 interview on CNN called al-Qaeda…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachman told a group of Republican faithfuls on Oct. 28 that “Obama is allowing terror suspect groups to write the FBI’s terror training manual,” a wildly false statement, according to the Associated Press. But that didn’t stop other Republican hopefuls from repeating the claims, reports the Associated…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Herb Kohl warned FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday morning about the danger of the FBI’s plan to close three FBI offices in the senator’s home state of Wisconsin, reports WXOW. Kohl opposed the closures of offices in La Crosse, Kenosha and Wausau, Wisc., telling Mueller that if the closures…
By EVAN PEREZ The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said a Pentagon-funding bill that increases military authority over terrorism detainees injects new uncertainty into sensitive national-security investigations. Mr. Mueller’s comments are the first indicating that the joint House-Senate conference bill failed to resolve concerns that had prompted the Obama administration to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Creativity is one thing that never seems to be lacking when it comes to housing fraud, a pervasive problem. The latest: Five men have been charged in an FBI probe into bid rigging on foreclosed homes at public auction in northern California, a local ABC affiliate reported on Tuesday. A federal…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a Connecticut man Tuesday in connection with a cyberattack on the website of KISS frontman Gene Simmons, NewsCore reports. Kevin George Poe is believed to be a part of the computer hacking collective Anonymous. Poe was released on a $10,000 bond after being taken into custody without incident,…
