By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former chief of the Knoxville FBI office is suing the bureau and the Justice Department for $2.5 million, saying he was falsely accused of violating the law for accepting a position as the senior counterintelligence officer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Oak Ridge field…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal prosecutor who once was the third highest-ranking official in the Justice Department’s fraud section is headed to the private sector. The New York Times reports that James Koukios is joining private law firm, Morrison & Forester. He was named a partner in the firm’s security litigation and white-collar criminal…
By Mary Turck Al Jazeera On March 20, the Michigan Attorney General’s Public Integrity Unit charged two U.S. Border Patrol agents with theft and misconduct while on duty. The two agents allegedly stole from a home while executing an agency-authorized search warrant. The case exemplifies the type of unchecked abuse and corruption that has become…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A House committee wants the Obama administration to investigate Secret Service employees who circulated personnel information that showed the panel’s chairman was denied a job as an agent, The Washington Post reports. The committee that oversees the Secret Service discovered last week that unflattering information about Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three FBI agents were injured after one of them shot a suspect at a CVS drug store in Forsyth, Ga. The agents are recovering from non-life-threatening injuries following the incident Saturday. Details are still murky, but the Forsyth News reports that the agents were part of a task force. At some…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is requiring agents to pass a fitness test for the first time in 16 years. “The lives of your colleagues and those you protect may well depend upon your ability to run, fight and shoot, no matter what job you hold,” James B. Comey, the FBI director, said in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chris Voss, a former lead hostage negotiator for the FBI, was named a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Voss will join the center’s Counterterrorism and Intelligence Task Force, according to PR Newswire. “I am honored to become a Senior Fellow with the CCHS…
