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“60 Minutes” Correspondent Mike Wallace Was Trailed by FBI During Cuba Visit
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI kept a close eye on late “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace during a 1970 trip to Cuba, recently released files show, CBS News reports. The documents detail the luggage and travel information of Wallace and “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt, according to CBS News. The FBI also investigated a threatening…
FBI Changes Firearm Training to Adapt to Close-Quarters Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s firearm training has begun focusing on close-quarters combat after a review found that most agent-involved shootings are within point-blank range, the USA Today reports. The new training protocol is a dramatic shift for an agency that has relied on long-range marksmanship training. After reviewing about 200 shootings during a 17-year…
FBI Agent Adrian Johnson Gets 18 Months in Fatal Drunk Driving Crash in Suburban D.C.
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Ex-FBI agent Adrian Johnson was sentenced Friday in suburban D.C. to 18 months in prison for the 2011 drunk driving crash that killed one person and seriously injured another, the Washington Post reported. Johnson, 39, who had been assigned to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder’s security detail, was convicted of motor vehicle…
Records: FBI Knew American-born Muslim Cleric Provided Sept. 11 Hijackers Airline Tickets
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least three of the hijackers on Sept. 11, 2011, received advance airline tickets from an American-born Muslim cleric killed in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, Fox News reports, citing newly released FBI records. The cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, likely purchased the tickets within days of the terrorist attacks, likely…
FBI: Hammers, Clubs More Deadly Than Rifles, Shotguns
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Despite all the attention paid to gun violence, hammers and clubs kill more people each year than rifles and shotguns, FBI records indicate, CBS DC reports. Nearly 500 people were killed by hammers and clubs, compared to 323 with rifles and 356 with shotguns. The statistics are deceptive, though, because other types…
Editorial: ATF Left Without Teeth to Enforce Gun Laws
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial One of the gun lobby’s favorite mantras is that the nation doesn’t need any more laws to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals; it needs to start by enforcing those that are on the books. But that argument evaporates upon closer inspection of the federal government’s systems for tracking and…
Former FBI Agent Faces Up to 13 Years for Fatal Drunken-Driving Crash
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who killed a teenager in a drunken-driving crash in Maryland could be sentenced to up to 13 years in prison today, the Associated Press reports. Adrian Johnson was convicted in October of motor vehicle manslaughter and homicide by motor vehicle while intoxicated after crashing his car into another…
Alabama Releases Over-the-Top Instructional Video on Mass Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Alabama Department of Homeland Security released an unusual instructional video on how respond to a mass shooting, Gawker reports. With haunting music and blood spatter, the six-minute video “scares the shit out of everyone who watches it,” Gawker reported. The video, produced originally by the Houston Police Department, depicts an office…