Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who operated a sex crimes task force in Georgia is accused of using his position to get out of at least three drunken driving investigations, CBS in Atlanta reports. Ken Hillman, who ran the northwest Georgia Crimes Against Children Task Force, abused his authority while being pulled over on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com How prepared is Homeland Security to handle terrorism threats? On the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Senate panel will ask that question as it examines the department and interviews former lawmakers and past DHS officials, including the first Homeland Security secretary, Tom Ridge, the Washington Post reports. The…
Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton New York Times Op-Ed No single event in the last half-century has had a greater effect on American national security policy than the terrorist attacks that occurred 12 years ago today. When we co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, which was set up in 2002 and issued its report…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Phillip R. Price, a 23-year veteran of ATF, died Sunday morning. He was 75 and was from Lancaster, Ky. After serving in the military, Price returned to his home state of Kentucky to become a state trooper. In 1967, Price was recruited to join the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of…
As part of an effort to get a broad view of Robert S. Mueller III’s tenure as FBI director, I’ve asked people to write and tell me what they think. On Monday I published some comments. Later in the day, I received this from Tom McClenaghan, a retired FBI agent. — Allan Lengel By Tom…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI continues to investigate Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, who died in a car crash in June, for “controversial reporting,” Al Jazeera America reports. The bureau opened a file on Hastings on June 11, 2012 “to memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012,” according to records obtained…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Late novelist and poet Charles Bukowski was not ashamed to admit it – he was a “dirty old man.” That caught the FBI’s attention, as did Bukowski’s potential ties to the underground press, reports the Los Angeles Times. More than 100 pages of FBI files from 1968 show agents investigated Bukowski, a postal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI analyst was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for possessing child pornography, The Washington Post reports. Keith Dietterle, 28, who admitted to sending a pornographic image to an undercover officer, was nabbed in an undercover sting in November. Dietterle was busted after communicating through a social…
