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Feds Indict Penn. Man for Cross Burning
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Old expressions of hatred live on. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Tuesday announced charges against A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man for burning a cross in 2010. Authorities said that Ryan M. Held, aka Ryan M. Foley, 20, of Philipsburg, Penn., was indicted on March 27 by a federal grand jury for burning the…
FBI Whistle-Blower Claims Agency Blocking Her From Publishing Memoirs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds is causing a stir once again. The former contract linquist for the FBI, claims, via her lawyer, that the agency’s prepublication review is imposing restrictions that are blocking her from publishing her book about the bureau, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that she was fired a…
Ex-Teacher Replaces bin Laden on FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He ain’t exactly Osama bin Laden. Still, the FBI on Tuesday announced a replacement for bin Laden for its Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List: Eric Justin Toth, 30, a former private-school teacher and camp counselor. Toth is accused of possessing and producing child pornography. In a press release, the FBi said…
FBI Analyst Claims He Was 1 Pushup Short of Becoming an Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jay Bauer, an intelligence analyst for the FBI in Chicago, may have been short on the pushups, but he’s no pushover. The Northwestern University doctoral graduate has filed a gender-discrimation lawsuit against the FBI, claiming he was short one pushup at the training academy and was rejected as an agent,…
Ex-FBI Agent Sentenced to 1 Year-1Day for Lying About Helping Informant He Had An Affair With
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s prison time for former FBI agent Adrian Busby. The New York Post reports that Busby was sentenced Monday in fed court in Manhattan to one year and one day in prison for leaking secret documents to help an informant who was also his lover. “Your life is now pretty much…
FBI Probing Police Shooting Involving Unarmed College Student
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI stepping into a controversial police shooting in Pasadena, Calif. involving an unarmed college student. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI will open a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of college student Kendrec McDade by the Pasadena Police. The FBI issued a statement, according to the…
FBI Concerned About Spying on U.S. Campuses
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. campuses aren’t just for educating our youth. Bloomberg news reports that the FBI is concerned about countries using universities to gather intelligence. “We have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence services,” Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence told Bloomberg. Bloomberg…