Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Janice Fedarcyk, the first female to ever head up the New York FBI office , is retiring Friday to begin work in the private sector. Fedarcyk spoke to WNYC about her time at the FBI. You have been a trailblazer for women in law enforcement. Did gender make a difference in your career?…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Using tens of thousands of pages of unreleased FBI files, investigative journalist Seth Rosenfeld wrote a book, “Subversives,” about the agency’s handling of the Berkeley student movement in the 1960s, the Daily Beast reports. The book reveals that top FBI officials went to great lengths to destroy the movement because they believed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge ruled Thursday that authorities must release from a psychiatric hospital a former Marine under FBI investigation for posting anti-government messages on Facebook, the Washington Times reports. Prince George County Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett ordered the release of Brandon Raub because there was not sufficient basis to hold him. Raub, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the meth problem growing, DEA’s top boss Michele M. Leonhart announced Thursday the signing of a new memorandum of cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico “to aggressively address the continuing problem” of production. In a press release, the DEA said the U.S. and Mexican officials enjoy a strong cooperative relationship…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new chief of the budget-challenged Spokane Police Department is a former special agent with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General, the Spokesman-Review reports. Mayor David Condon selected Frank Straub to head the police department – an appointment that must receive approval from the Spokane City Council. Straub takes over…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Homeland Security are warning of concerns that anarchist groups may try to use improvised explosive devices at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. It’s unclear how real the threat is because the FBI routinely issues similar advisories ahead of major events and plans…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is consolidating two offices in Mississippi into a larger one in Oxford as part of a budget-cutting move, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. But the move – relocating Tupelo and Greenville into Oxford –won’t affect staffing, an FBI spokeswoman told the Daily Journal. “The consolidation will not affect the…
Aaron Edwards New York Times The woman’s body stiffened with each passing second as she sat anxiously in the back row of a 14-person limousine. Suddenly, a man sitting near her was fatally shot — killed by an F.B.I. agent, the culmination of nearly 14 hours of one of the more gripping criminal episodes in…
