By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com While telling Congress of the FBI’s efforts to battle the Mexican drug cartels, FBI director Robert S. Mueller III rattled off some pretty grim statistics. Appearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller said: Between $18 billion and $39 billion flows annually from the United States across the Southwest border to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Filming has started for the highly controversial J. Edgar Hoover film being directed by Clint Eastwood, On Location Vacations reports. The website reports that some filming has taken place in Los Angeles. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the legendary FBI director and Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, his sidekick at…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller urged Congress Wednesday to reauthorize investigative tools like roving wiretaps to help fight terrorism. “We encourage Congress to reauthorize the three critical FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) tools that will expire later this year: roving wiretap authority, access to business records under FISA, and the “lone…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The war against drugs is looking more and more like a war. The New York Times reports that the Obama administration has started sending drones deep into Mexico to gather intelligence on the location and activities of major drug traffickers. The Times reports that the Pentagon began flying the unarmed drones…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In an odd footnote to the death penalty issue comes this: The DEA on Tuesday seized a key lethal injection drug used by the state of Georgia, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. DEA spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell said, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “We had questions about how the drug was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI Agents Association’s endorsement Tuesday of ex-FBI agent Mike Mason to head the FBI in September offers no guarantees, but it could raise his profile as a candidate. He would be the first African-American to head the agency. Mason, who served in the FBI for 23 years, and currently heads…
