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Should Secret Service Agents Take Polygraphs After Being Hired?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Should Secret Service agents be polygraphed after they join the agency? Ronald Kessler of Newsmax seems to suggest that. He writes that agents must take a poloygraph test to get the job. But not after that. In contrast, he reports that FBI employees are polygraphed every five years, and counterintelligence agents,…
Ex-TSA Official Says Airport Screeners Would Have Caught Latest Underwear Bomber
By Mark Strassmann CBS News At more than 180 U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration increasingly relies on full-body scanners. Their electromagnetic waves screen passengers for dense objects — both metallic and non-metallic threats — from guns to homemade plastic explosives. Kip Hawley was the TSA administrator in 2007, when the agency rolled out these…
FBI Announces Kenneth L. Moore New Special Agent in Charge of Knoxville Division
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Kenneth L. Moore has been appointed special agent in charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Division, the FBI announced in a press release. Moore has served as chief inspector in the FBI’s Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters since April 2011. Moore’s career began in 1987 in Little Rock. He later went on to…
Israeli Mobsters Extradited to US Plead Guilty
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Sometimes being a ‘friend of Israel’ means sharing criminals. Three Israeli mobsters were extradited to the U.S. in January 2011 in the first extradition of its kind under Israel’s racketeering law, which parallels RICO, the U.S. law targeting organized crime. Two of the three pled guilty to a host of drug and…
Ex-Head of Mass State Police Says Others in Boston FBI Should Have Gotten Nailed for Protecting Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The story about the Boston FBI cover up and coddling of thugs like James “Whitey” Bulger isn’t going to vanish any time soon, even though many years have passed. The latest: Thomas J. Foley, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police, who spent 20 years chasing Bulger, has penned a…
CIA Drone Kills al-Qaeda Leader Fahd al-Quso Tied to USS Cole Bombingmen
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In the war on terror, success can sometimes bring retaliation. Global terrorist Fahd al-Quso, who had links to the USS Cole bombing, was killed in Yemen Sunday, according to Yemeni officials and confirmed by al-Qaeda, reports USA Today. A CIA drone strike killed the top al-Qaeda leader, on the FBI Most-Wanted list…
OK Lobbyist Wants Feds to Pay Legal Fees in FBI Sting
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Oklahoman lobbyist Andy Skeith is slinking out of a corruption trial scott-free… except for $141,000 in legal fees. He’d like the federal government to cover his costs. Sound crazy? Depends who’s judging. The FBI set up a fake company and gave Skeith $10,000 to make illegal contributions to 2 Okahoma state lawmakers….
Arizona Killer was Suspected of Domestic Terrorism by FBI
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com White supremacist and border vigilante J.T. Ready was already being investigated for domestic terrorism by the feds when he allegedly went on a killing spree in his Gilbert, Arizona home, just outside of Pheonix, last Wednesday, reports The Arizona Republic. Feds seized the opportunity of the tragedy to join Gilbert police at…