AllanLengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has released some gems; videos, photos and documents relating to the arrests of 10 Russian spies last year. Along with the materials, the FBI noted that the spy ring was “a chilling reminder that espionage on U.S. soil did not disappear when the Cold War ended. The highly publicized…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A major drug bust in Arizona targeted folks linked to a Mexican cartel believed to handle 65 percent of all drugs illegally transported to the United States, and resulted in the seizure of thousands of pounds of narcotics and at least 70 arrests, reports Reuters. The raids, overseen by the DEA, Arizona…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Last week, after the students had left a rural Pennsylvania school about 70 miles west of Scranton, DEA administrators and colleagues gathered there to remember a fallen agent, an alma mater of Hughesville High School, according to the Sun Gazette. Chad Michael, 30, assigned to the DEA Miami Division, was one…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Folks like talk show host Bill O’Reilly talked incessantly about the government spending $16 a muffin at a conference even after press reports began to surface that the Justice Department report on the issue probably wasn’t true. The Hilton hotel had disputed it all along, saying the price included multiple breakfast…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Did the FBI go over board a little in its recent 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report? Reporter Spencer Ackerman of WIRED seems to think so. Ackerman writes that the FBI considers the teen fans of the “shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips,…
James Cavanaugh was an ATF agent and supervisor for 33 years before retiring in 2010. By James Cavanaugh For ticklethewire.com America is now witnessing a democratic movement that is taking to the streets the likes of which we have not seen since 1968. As this phenomenon develops we should all realize how overwhelmingly…
