By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has left its mark — and not in a good way. ATF, which is responsible for approving Federal Firearms Licenses for gun dealers, finds itself with a huge backlog to process, station KERA reports. ATF spokeswoman April Langwell tells the station it’s hard to pin…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric B. Smith, a native of Ohio, has been named head of the Cleveland FBI. Smith, 49, a native of the London, Ohio, joined the FBI in 1999 and was first assigned to the Wichita Resident Agency, Kansas City Field Office, where he worked violent crime, counterterrorism and counterintelligence. In 2005,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump has a history of dismissing intelligence and data from his intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The latest example came Monday night during a rally in El Paso, Texas. Trump, in his speech, asked supporters to disregard FBI data showing that a border fence didn’t make El Paso safer, and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was found guilty on Tuesday of crimes spanning more than a quarter of a century, NBC News reports. A federal jury in New York convicted El Chapo, 61, on all 10 count after a trial that lasted almost three months. After a nearly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew McCabe, the fired FBI deputy director, has come out with his new book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.” Suffice to say, the book does not portray President Trump in a flattering light. “The FBI has always been the nemesis of criminals….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI and CIA Director William Webster helped the FBI nab a Jamaican man who tried to scam him out of $50,000, Tom Jackman of the Washington Post reports. The scam took place in 2014. Webster got a call from a Jamaican man, who was later identified as Keniel A. Thomas….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker says that he hasn’t talked to President Donald Trump about the Mueller probe and not interfered with the investigation in anyway. That’s what he told the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, Vox news reports. During intense questioning by House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Whitaker conceded that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For years the hunt was on to find a new location for FBI headquarters, and the likely choices were in Virginia and Maryland. But in 2017, after a five-year search, the FBI abruptly ended the search. It appeared the current spot would be revamped. In August 2018, a report from the Inspector General’s…
