By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Aaron T. Ford, an inspector at FBI headquarters, who has a law degree from Rutgers, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Memphis Division. As inspector, he oversaw field office and headquaters inspections, shooting incident review teams, audits, and special inquiries. Ford began his career with the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He shined in “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull”, just to name a few. Now the big-screen legend Robert De Niro is about to play the 21st Century’s legendary swindler Bernie Madoff in an HBO movie, according to Deadline Hollywood. Deadline Hollywood reports that the project has hired Reservation Road scribe John Burnham…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA’s commando style squads that were established during the Bush years to battle Taliban-linked drug traffickers in Afghanistan are operating in regions far beyond that war zone, field, according to the New York Times. The Times reports that the DEA now has five commando-style squads that have been “quietly deploying for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Being a Peeping Tom can be dangerous business. The Associated Press reports that an an off-duty Secret Service agent fired a shot Sunday night at someone he susupected of videotaping his daughter through a window at their home at Mercer Island in the Seattle area. AP, citing police, reported that the…
By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times As this week’s release date of the movie “J. Edgar” approaches, more info seems to be surfacing about the legendary FBI director. The latest: Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times reports that Hoover became obsessed in the early 1970s with a new reporter in Washington, Jack Nelson…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post WASHINGTON — In the middle of the Pakistani night, near the border with Afghanistan, a team of FBI agents dressed in native garb descended on a hotel room. One of those agents, Sean M. Joyce, kicked in the door, tackled a screaming Pakistani man and threw him to the ground….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a speech Friday in Washington before the National Symposium for United States Court of Appeals Judges, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III shared a very interesting exchange he had with President Bush right after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “A few days after the attacks, I was briefing President Bush…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., whose likely to get a grilling from Republicans over ATF’s Operation Fast Furious when he appears Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, got some welcome backing on Thursday. Politico reports that the National Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of sworn law enforcement officers,…
