By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI Agents Association has endorsed ex-FBI agent Mike Mason to replace the soon-to-retire FBI Director Robert Mueller III. The association, which represents more than 12,000 active duty and retired agents, said Tuesday that it had submitted the recommendation to the Obama Administration. “While the FBIAA is not limiting itself to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This could get interesting. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Colorado resident Steven Howards can sue two Secret Service agents who arrested him after he touched Vice President Dick Cheney’s arm in 2006 and told him that his Iraqi war policies were disgusting, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You can’t expect everyone to love ya when you snitch for the FBI on your mobster dad and then write a book about it. The Chicago Tribune reports that Borders books in the Chicago area canceled two book signings slated for this week for ex-Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Jr., who helped…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite what Sen. Charles Schumer says, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants his police commissioner Ray Kelly to stay put, according to the Huffington Post. Schumer the other day told the New York Daily News that he’s going to push for Kelly to succeed FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As birthdays go, it may not be the most memorable one. That said, the FBI felt it was worth noting on its website that the The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list turned 61 years old on Monday. The FBI noted that 494 fugitives have made the list since its inception and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lewis “Matt” Chapman is taking charge of the FBI’s Mobile, Ala. office, the FBI announced Monday. Chapman’s last stop was as FBI section chief of the Investigative and Operations Support Section, Critical Incident Response Group in Quantico, Va. The FBI said Chapman, as section chief, oversaw the FBI’s National Center for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marshals Service has becoming increasingly involved in apprehending local and federal officials, which may explain in part why its deputies are increasingly being put in harms way, the website Talking Points Memo suggests. In the past several weeks, two deputy U.S. marshals have been shot and killed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two former Blackwater employees have been convicted in federal court in of involuntary manslaughter while working Afghanistan in 2009. Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Tex. and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va., were convicted Friday in Norfolk U.S. District Court. Both were working for Blackwater as contractors for the…
