By Suzanne Kelly CNN Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, weighed in last week on a simmering disagreement in the Senate over the best way to address the nation’s vulnerability to cyberattacks. The two men, who now run the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Homeland Security project, are calling on senators to take…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Make that number 50. Ex-Cuyahoga County, Ohio, commissioner Jimmy Dimora was convicted Friday on public corruption charges that involved taking bribes and gifts and prostitutes. He becomes the 50th person convicted in an ongoing federal investigation into corruption in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland. A federal jury convicted him of racketeering,…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The NCAA and Auburn University have contacted the FBI about point-shaving allegations involving the school’s men’s basketball program, CNN reported. “We are very concerned by the point-shaving allegations involving Auburn University men’s basketball program and have been in contact with the school and the FBI since the issue arose in February,” the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI kept a file on the late outspoken writer Christopher Hitchens, the website Historiographic Anarchy reports. The website reported that the FBI released through the Freedom of Information Act, 19 pages on Hitchens, some which show he was the subject of an FBI Foreign Counterintelligence probe. He died in December…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Minnesota FBI, which also covers North and South Dakota, has moved. The Associated Press reports that the office has moved from downtown Minneapolis to a standalone facility in the suburb of Brooklyn Center, just northwest of the city. Features of the new facility include bulletproof glass and blast-proof walls.
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Eric Velez-Villar, deputy assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence Operations Branch at FBI Headquarters, is getting a bump up to assistant director of that division, the FBI announced this week. In testimony last month before the House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee on counterterrorism intelligence, Velez-Villar pledged the FBI’s cooperation with state…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A tell-all book by an ex-Secret Service agent who worked the President Clinton detail is bound to ruffle some feathers inside the Beltway. The Examiner newspaper reports that ex-Secret Service agent Dan Emmett has written a self-published book “Within Arms’s Length” that “savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and…
