By Jerry Seper The Washington Times WASHINGTON — A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who blew the whistle on the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation and, according to lawmakers, was threatened with losing his job has successfully resolved a retaliation claim. ATF agent Peter Forcelli settled the claim, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And as if the agent needed another reason to get a divorce. The Associated Press reports that authorities charged the husband of an FBI agent of setting her bureau car on fire with her weapons inside at their Portland, Ore. home. AP reported that authorities alleged that David Powers, 44, set…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Transportation Security Administration officers were indicted Tuesday on charges of conspiring and attempting to smuggle cocaine through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Richard C. Cook II, 27, of Henry County, Ga. and Timothy G. Gregory, 25, of DeKalb County, Ga. were indicted by a grand jury on multiple drug counts….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Crazed gunman Jared Loughner was found competent to stand trial on Tuesday. He then immediately pleaded guilty to 19 charges in a shooting spree last year in Tucson that left six people dead including a federal judge, and 13 wounded including ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner murdered U.S. District Judge John Roll…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew Traver, whose nomination by President Obama to head up ATF seems to have gone nowhere, is the new head of ATF’s Denver office. Before getting this new assignment he was head of the Chicago ATF. Traver began his ATF career in 1987 as a special agent in the Chicago Field…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agent Stephen Ivens who went missing two months ago from his Burbank, Calif., home and was found dead Monday in a wooded area, committed suicide, authorities have ruled, according to the Associated Press reports. Ivens went missing in May, prompting a furious search. Investigators said Ivens was despondent and had feared…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Concerned about copycat attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is urging suburban mosques to be extra vigilant for suspicious people, the Daily Herald reports. The call comes in response to the weekend shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people and the arson of a mosque in Joplin, Mo….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Foley III, a 16-year FBI veteran with a background of cracking down on corruption, will take charge of the agency’s Detroit Division to replace Andrew Arena, who retired in May, the FBI announced. Foley was named special agent in charge of an office that has been busy investigating public corruption cases,…
