Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service plans to save $2 million by ending public tours of the White House beginning March 9, CNN reports. It’s a small fraction of the cuts that need to be made to absorb $84 million in reduction as part of the sequestration, CNN reported. The Secret Service pays 37 uniformed officers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s decision to label fans of the Insane Clown Posse as a nationwide gang threat was made after just two arrests, Wired.com reports. Fans of the Detroit-based rapping duo were part of a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” that’s “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity,” the FBI concluded…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the ATF’s St, Paul Field Division acknowledged mistakes were made during a botched undercover sting operation of gun and drug dealers at a store in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Journal Sentinel recently exposed serious problems during a 10-month ATF sting. Among them: the theft of nearly…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After nearly two years as special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, James F. Yacone is on his way out to head up an elite FBI unit called Critical Incident Response Group in Virginia, the Denver Post reports. James F. Yacone plans to exit March 15, and he’ll replace Robert…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When then-U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd was investigating mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, he said the FBI “stonewalled” him in the 1990s when he asked whether Bulger was an informant, MassLive.com reports. The assertion came during a confirmation hearing for Attorney Robert Ullmann, who is seeking appointment on a seat on the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI’s search for a new headquarters has drawn nearly three dozen offers from private and local groups, the Baltimore Sun reports. The FBI wants to abandon its 38-year-old headquarters because it has outgrown the crumbling building and wants to find a new one that can accommodate 2.1 million square feet of offices…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Upper Midwest office of the ATF said his priority will be getting violent offenders off the street, the Associated Press reports. Scott Sweetow, who was named special agent in charge of the ATF’s St. Paul Field Division in January, said…
