By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have busted operators of NinjaVIdeo.net, a website that enabled millions of visitors to download movies that were playing in the theaters and some that had yet to be released. The site also offered television shows. The probe, lead by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, resulted in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years after being elected President, the Obama administration is still working to fill the U.S. Attorney spots. The latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday gave the go ahead by voice vote for four U.S. Attorney nominees in Texas and one in Oregon. The full Senate must now…
Also read AP Story: TSA Chief Optimistic About Everything But Terror By Tim Evans Indianapolis Star Anderson native John Pistole was an FBI agent performing routine audits of the agency’s local offices when the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Counterterrorism wasn’t exactly Pistole’s area of expertise. Nonetheless, he was quickly pulled into…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — In a beer-and-burger joint on Michigan Avenue in Detroit, down the street from where the old Tiger Stadium once stood, former and current FBI agents and employees gathered Thursday evening to remember ex-Detroit FBI agent Paul Lindsay who died last week in Boston at age 68 from pneumonia….
Listen to NPR Radio Story By G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting | Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting | Daniel Zwerdling, NPR BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the spooky world of homeland security. As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Public Affairs Specialist David Ausiello is making a switch. Ausiello has been named Assistant Director for Communication and Law Enforcement Coordination at the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys. “Staying in the DOJ family…but moving up, over, and out,” Ausiello said in an email to members of the media on…
By PAUL BEDARD and LAUREN FOX U.S. News & World Report Racism and the nation’s white hot political environment that has sparked bitter division in Washington and a political assassination attempt in Arizona have raised concerns about President Obama’s safety on the campaign trail, according to a former top U.S. marshal and retired…
