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First Deaf FBI Agent to Work as Undercover Lip-Reader Inspires Students
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Any teens might be wowed by a former FBI agent, but the Mountain Lakes High and Briarcliff Middle School students who heard ex agent Sue Thomas speak in NJ this week weren’t ‘any’ students… they are hearing impaired just like her, reports New Jersey’s Daily Record. That common challenge made Thomas’ story…
Questions Remain in Oklahoma Bombing: Book Excerpts from Oklahoma City: What The Investigation Missed — and Why It Still Matters
Perhaps no lead in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation was left hanging more glaringly than the radical community in eastern Oklahoma known as Elohim City. It played host to some of dangerous radical criminals of the time, and there are multiple indications from law enforcement sources McVeigh himself either spent time there or met its…
NY FBI Agent Honored for Doomed WWII Secret Mission
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com FBI Special Agent Harold Haberfeld is being honored for his service, nearly 70 years after his plane crashed in a WWII mission in northern Africa, reports Fox News. The FBI Buffalo office dedicated its main conference room to Haberfeld in an outdoor ceremony Thursday. However Haberfeld’s ill-fated mission was so top-secret that his home…
FBI Affidavit: Minn. Supremacist Targeted Mexican Consulate
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com An affidavit unsealed in federal court reveals a bomb plot in Minnesota involving white supremacists. The affidavit details the investigation into white supremacist Joseph Benjamin Thomas’ plot to blow up the Mexican consulate in St. Paul, Minnesota, reports the AP. Thomas, 42, and Samuel James Johnson, 31, wanted to form a militant…
NYPD’s Kelly Barks Back After FBI Snub on al Qaeda Plot
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you hadn’t notice, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is no shrinking violet. So one day after FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified before Congress that he hadn’t bothered to call Kelly about the latest al Qaeda/ underwear bomber plot, Kelly spoke up. FBI agents waited a week to…
Former FBI Agent Quits Connecticut House Race
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent Mike Clark was running to fill the Connecticut House seat once held by the governor he investigated, reports the AP, but he’s thrown in the towel. Clark is instead urging supporters to help state Sen. Andrew Roraback win the Republican race in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District. The Connecticut Republican…
FBI Investigating Leaks to Media about Foiled al Qaeda Plot
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Authorities are investigating leaks about a thwarted al Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S.-bound plane, reports the New York Times. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Congressional Committee Wednesday that the the leaks are compromising national security efforts and would be pursued accordingly. White House efforts to prosecute individuals who leak security…
NY Daily News Editorial: FBI Director Robert Mueller Must Stop Shutting Out NYPD
By The New York Daily News Editorial Page The pettiness was appalling as FBI Director Robert Mueller explained why the feds had left Police Commissioner Ray Kelly out of the loop on the underwear bomb plot. “As I told Ray, he’s always welcome to call,” Mueller said. Question, Mr. G-man: Must Kelly say, “Pretty please,”…