By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you’re keeping score, yes, the FBI still has far more agents than the DEA. But on the ice that didn’t seem to matter Saturday when the two agencies squared off at the Ashburn Ice house in Virginia to play a friendly game of hockey to raise money for the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The TSA has got the Christmas-time itch for unwrapping gifts. The agency has announced a zero-tolerance towards wrapped gifts after one passenger was found to be carrying marijuana in a wrapped gift, reports CBS Los Angeles. That means the TSA will unwrap your wrap if it’s suspicious. The TSA realizes there …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s a pack-your-toothbrush kind of week for Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., who plans to travel to the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Port of Spain and Trinidad and Tobago to meet with local leaders and law enforcement counterparts and to attend the Organization of American States Conference. In the Dominican Republic, Holder…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two hours outside of Bangkok, Byron San Marco, an ATF special agent, explodes a hidden bomb slung over the back seat of a motor bike, according to a report by Time magazine. San Marco and his ATF team will blow up two more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the US-funded Tactical…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After all the efforts by law enforcement to forge a lasting cooperation — particularly in the post-9/11 era — some in the Muslim community in America remain skeptical. The Associated Press reports Muslim groups in New York are discouraging people from going to the New York police with concerns about terrorism, and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Hate crimes held steady in 2010, new FBI stats show, with 6,628 hate crime incidents reported for the year. That figure was slightly up from the 6,604 in 2009. Almost half of all incidents were motivated by racial bias, according to the FBI report released Monday. Roughly 20 percent of the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Expressing deep unease about the UK’s restricting the scope of anti-terrorism “stop and search” powers, the U.S, plans to send about 1,000 security agents to the 2012 London Olympics, which will include a contingent of about 500 FBI agent, reports Adelaide Now. “We are not equal partners in this,” said an unnamed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI investigators have found themselves in a “Whack-a-Mole” like search for $600 million in missing funds, reports MSNBC. The search, in partnership with the Commodity Futures Training Commission and the SEC, is for lost customer cash in an investigation into New Jersey Gov. John Corzine’s now bankrupt brokerage firm MF Global….
