Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before becoming a leading expert on cyber crime, J. Keith Mularski sold discount furniture. Now he’s a supervisory special agent for the FBI, heading the Pittsburgh field office’s cyber squad, the Associated Press reports. After graduating from college, Mularski spent about five years selling furniture before joining the FBI. “I was in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Florida police officers are without a job after a confidential FBI report showed they were members of a local branch of the KKK, the Daily Mail reports. Fruitland Park Police dismissed Officer George Hunnewell, while Deputy Chief David Borst, 49, resigned. Borst also was the city’s fire chief. While Fruitland Police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gov. Rick Perry urged President Obama to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to southern Texas in a show of force designed to dissuade more Central Americans from crossing the Mexican border the American-Statesman reports. Perry said the solution should not be spending an additional $3.7 billion in taxes to address the crisis….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s unscheduled forays from the White House are causing some stress among the Secret Service, the Hill reports. Obama has been slipping from the safety of his office and taking impromptu walks. “I don’t get a chance to take walks very often,” he told a crowd in New York earlier this…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 47-year-old Utah man has been arrested on allegations he was plotting to kill police officers and bomb a police station to instigate an uprising against the government, the Associated Press reports. The FBI said John Huggins, who was arrested Thursday, is expected to return to federal court Tuesday after he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) on Thursday denounced Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s proposal to eliminate ATF and have it absorbed by another agency. “Violent gangs, gun traffickers and active shooters will not take pause while Congress attempts to engage in an unwarranted bureaucratic maneuver that would waste taxpayer dollars and leave the public at risk,” said FLEOA President Jon Adler…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As violence against black people continued after signing the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson turned to the FBI for help. The New York Times reports that Johnson urged then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to open the first office dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Americans. The…
