ATF Sends About 20 Agents to Help Investigate Shooting of Kansas City Officer
The ATF is helping police investigate the fatal shooting Tuesday of a Kansas City, Kansas, officer.
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Lawsuit: FBI Deliberately Uses Outdated System to Impede FOIA Requests
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A national security researcher is suing the FBI, alleging the bureau uses an antiquated system to deliberately impede requests under the Freedom of Information Act, IDG New Service reports. Ryan Shapiro, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, claims in the lawsuit that the FBI has established “countless means” of impeding FOIA requests,…
FBI to Start Sending Thousands of Deleted Clinton Emails to State Department
The FBI on Friday will start sending “several thousand” deleted Hillary Clinton emails to the State Department.
Oranges, Apples, Pears – Don’t Think of Taking Them inside RNC Convention
It appears the Secret Service is worried about a fruit war at the Republican National Convention.
FBI Concluded Orlando Shooter Was Not Likely to “Go Postal” After 2013 Interviews
The FBI concluded that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was not a terrorist and not likely to “go postal” after interviewing him twice in 2013.
R. Justin Tolomeo To Head Up FBI’s Milwaukee Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — R. Justin Tolomeo, who served as an inspector in the Inspection Division of the FBI, has been named special agent in charge of the Milwaukee Division, the FBI announced on Monday. He’ll assume the new post in September. Tolomeo joined the FBI in 1998 and was first assigned to the…
Black Lives Matter Activists Claim FBI Agents Urging Not to Protest at RNC
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Black Lives Matter activists said FBI agents have been urging them not to protest at this week’s Republican convention in Cleveland. The Washington Post repots that Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson asked President Obama to instruct the FBI to stop contacting activists ahead of the convention. The Post reports: Activists in…
FBI Returns Charles Darwin Letter to Museum After Theft in 1970s
A handwritten letter by Charles Darwin was stolen from the Smithsonian Institution Archives about four decades ago, frustrating investigators and historians.