Robert Anderson Promoted to Assist. Director FBI’s Counterintelligence Division

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Anderson, Jr., is moving up. Anderson, who has been the deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters has been promoted to assistant director of the division. Anderson joined the FBI in 1995 and was assigned to the Washington Field Office, where he investigated narcotics and violent crimes….

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Homeland Security Watchdog: Turf Battles Over Internal Public Corruption Investigations Has Subsided

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The top overseer of the Homeland Security Department told a House committee that turf battles over internal public corruption investigations had subsided, the Center for Investigative Reporting reports. But acting Inspector General Charles K. Edwards wouldn’t answer questions about an ongoing investigation of a Texas branch office. Edwards said his 219 investigators…

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Veteran ICE Officer Could Be Fired for Not Releasing Illegal Immigrant

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who refused to release an illegal immigrant because he was not considered a priority target faces suspension and potential termination, Fox News reports. “They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold U.S. law” Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, told…

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Former ATF Deputy Director Out Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Probe

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  William Hoover, the former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, left the agency Tuesday in the aftermath of the botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, the Associated Press reports. The agency’s No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011, Hoover was reassigned in October following…

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