Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com AT&T agreed to provide the DEA with real time access to an unprecedented amount of phone records as part of a recently revealed partnership, The Atlantic reports. Since 2007, the DEA has had access to every call that goes through AT&T’s switchboard, The Atlantic wrote. The phone company even provided four employees…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s head of the Denver field division has been named the new director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Denver Post reports. The Navy announced Andrew Traver’s new position Friday. “It is an awesome privilege to be chosen to lead a top-tier, elite agency in NCIS, and I intend to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The suspect was unwilling to go without a fight. When a Border Patrol agent was arresting Alberto Mayen, the Guatemalan responded by twisting the agents arm and then pounding the agent in the chest, Valley Central reports. The suspect, who was sent to the hospital, spat blood on the agent when another…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III about to step down, I thought it would be worth publishing comments about his tenure from readers of ticklethewire.com. Fair to say, no FBI director has oversaw more changes in recent decades than Mueller, who was forced to reorganize the bureau after the Sept….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Notorious mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger complained in recently obtained letters that his trial was a sham and “revenge for corrupting two FBI agents,” The New York Daily News reports. A week after he was found guilty of murder and racketeering, Bulger wrote a letter to his friend on Aug. 20 that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A teenager accused of trying to bomb a downtown Chicago bar also tried to get an undercover FBI agent killed, the Associated Press reports. From his jail cell, Adel Daoud is accused of plotting to have someone kill an FBI agent who played a role in a sting that led to this…
