Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is searching for the whereabouts of a U.S. Marine reservist, his father and uncle after they were kidnapped from a ranch in Mexico last month, Reuters reports. U.S. Marine Armando Torres III, who served in Iraq, was in La Barranca, close to the southern tip of Texas, when investigators in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, 71, gets out of prison today. The San Diego, eight-term Republican congressman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2006 for accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors that included a luxury house and yacht. He was released early for good behavior….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The murder and racketeering trial against mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger likely will reveal an ugly period for the FBI. While Bulger was wreaking havoc as the leader of a crime gang in South Boston from the 1970s to the early 1980s, he also was acting as an FBI informant. During…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jill Kelley, whose complaints about threatening e-mails led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, has sued the FBI, saying the agency violated her privacy by divulging her name to the media, the Huffington Post reports. At the time, federal agents were investigating Petraeus’ extramarital relationship with Paula Broadwell, the author…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For the first time since 2006, violent crime rose last year, the FBI said Monday. Violent crime increased 1.2%, or 3.7% in areas with populations between 500,000 and 1 million, NBC News reported. The biggest spike occurred in the West, where violent crime rose 3.3%. It fell 0.6% in the Northeast. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man who pleaded guilty to killing a Border Patrol agent in 2010 and whose case revealed the botched “Fast and Furious” investigation is to be sentenced Sept. 10, the Associated Press reports. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes is one of five men accused of killing Agent Brian Terry, but he’s the only one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some ATF agents involved with a botched gun-buying storefront operation in Milwaukee face disciplinary action, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The investigation was so bungled that agents last year had their guns stolen and their storefront pillaged. The Journal Sentinel discovered through a letter sent to Congress that the Justice Department is…
By David Corn Mother Jones WASHINGTON — The pending nomination of James Comey to become FBI chief is a poke in the eye with a very sharp stick for the Cheney crowd. Comey, deputy attorney general during the W. years, has drawn criticism from civil libertarians for being part of an administration that waterboarded (though…
