By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III vowed Tuesday in Yemen to help that nation battle an Islamist insurgency, Reuters news service reported. Reuters also reported that a U.S. drone had killed a high level al Qaeda figure in Yemen linked to an attack on a French oil tanker. Mueller met with…
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Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com A 2010 sting nailed a would-be bomber for attempting to plant an explosive device in the bustling Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. Now, he’s likely to be out of commission for a long time. The FBI announced Monday that Sami Samir Hassoun, a 24-year-old green card holder from Lebanon, pleaded guilty to one…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com More than 100 people memorialized two slain U.S. Coastguard employees in Alaska last week as “full of honor, courage and passion for their families,” but the FBI offered little closure on their deaths. The L.A. Times reports that the April 12th shooting of Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s showtime for former FBI agent John Robert Graves and his wife Sara Turberville Graves. Trial began Monday in fed court in Richmond for the two who are accused of defrauding 11 Virginians out of $1.3 million, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Graves, 52, and his wife Sara, 44, are charged with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s adios for Don Oswald after a short stint as head of the FBI in Minneapolis. Oswald ,53, tells the Associated Press that he’s retiring to practice practice law. He eventually wants to become a judge. He was assigned to the job last May. “I really would like to pursue that…
By CNN In the wake of a multi-million-dollar online scam, more than 300,000 computer users worldwide could find themselves without Web access this summer. Luckily for them, it will only take a few clicks to clean things up. The FBI announced that it’s created a website where users can check whether they’re infected with malware…
