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New Head of FBI’s Minneapolis Division Pledges to Crackdown on Terrorism
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Combating terrorism is among the top priorities of the FBI’s three-state Minneapolis Division, the new head of the division told the Associated Press. Chris Warrener, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis Division, which handles Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, said he plans to use his background overseeing terror financing…
FBI Investigates Motive Behind Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether a gunman who killed killed six people at a Wisconsin Sikh temple was committing an act of domestic terrorism, the Associated Press reports. FBI Special Agent in Charge Teresa Carlton said Sunday evening it’s unclear what prompted the attack. This morning, the FBI identified the…
Robert Anderson Promoted to Assist. Director FBI’s Counterintelligence Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Anderson, Jr., is moving up. Anderson, who has been the deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters has been promoted to assistant director of the division. Anderson joined the FBI in 1995 and was assigned to the Washington Field Office, where he investigated narcotics and violent crimes….
FBI Probes Shooting Death of Handcuffed Man in Arkansas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com On the surface, it looks pretty suspicious. It’s “definitely bizarre and defies logic at first glance,” Jonesboro, Ark. Police Chief Michale Yates said, reports Huffington Post. Chavis Carter, 21, was shot in the head while handcuffed in the rear of a police car in Arkansas. Police said Carter committed suicide with a…
Former ATF Deputy Director Out Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Probe
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com William Hoover, the former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, left the agency Tuesday in the aftermath of the botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, the Associated Press reports. The agency’s No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011, Hoover was reassigned in October following…
Las Vegas FBI Agent Shoots and Wounds Murder Suspect Outside Casino
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There was more than gambling going on outside a Las Vegas casino on Thursday. KTNV-TV reported that an FBI agent shot and wounded a man wanted for murder around 2:30 p.m. outside of Arizona Charlie’s on Boulder Highway near Twain. The station reported that the local Criminal Apprehension Team had been…
FBI Says It Has Lost Some Records on Marilyn Monroe
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI says it has lost records from when agents monitored Marilyn Monroe, the Associated Press reports. Hoping to learn more about the star on the 50th anniversary of her death this month, the Associated Press was trying to get the most complete record of her files including how the bureau investigated…
FBI Probe of News Leaks Chills Relations with Media
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Media coverage of national security issues has become more difficult because employees at federal agencies have been afraid to speak out since the FBI began its hunt for leakers of sensitive information, the New York Times reports. In one of the most thorough criminal investigations of intelligence disclosures in years, agents are…