By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man who shot and killed former ATF agent Gregory Holley, 55, while he was walking his dog in northern Virginia a year ago, will spend the rest of his life in prison, WUSA9 reports. Aric Smith, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., a suburb of D.C., was sentenced to two life terms…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has overcome some embarrassing blunders, from caving in to politicians to failing to convict former Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. John Edwards. In 2010, Jack Smith became the head of the beleaguered section, shouldered with the daunting responsibility of improving the prosecutors’ images as…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI said Monday it broke up a Russian spy ring in New York City, arresting the alleged ringleader and forcing two others to leave the country, The Washington Post reports. Evgeny Buryakov was charged with conspiracy to act and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government after he…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A license plate tracking program established to seize cars and money to combat drug trafficking has gone far beyond its original scope and has led to the collection and storage of millions of records about motorists, Reuters reports. Not only is the database being used to track drug dealers, but state…
By Tim Steller Arizona Daily Star Retired ATF agent Jay Dobyns’ lawsuit against the federal government alleged they broke a settlement deal with him and mistreated him, in part by calling him a suspect in the 2008 arson of his own Tucson home. Newly unsealed documents in his case suggest that the government misbehaved during…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the security breaches of recent, this is not very heartening. ABC News reports that a small drone was found on the White House grounds overnight. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the situation “does not pose any sort of ongoing threat,” according to ABC News. The Secret Service is…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new drama about a group of “young, sexy” FBI recruits has been picked up by ABC in what will be a busy pilot season, A.V. Club reports. The show, Quantico, features the recruits at a real-life training center. But there’s a twist. “One of the recruits turns out to be…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What’s the FBI’s most pressing concern in Indianapolis? Not public corruption, violent crime or the protection of civil liberties. According to Jay Abbott, director of the Indianapolis field office, the FBI’s most urgent issue in Indianapolis is terrorism, he told RTV6 ABC in an exclusive interview. Abbott said the attack on…
