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9/11 Co-Chairs Prod Senators for Cybersecurity Action
By Suzanne Kelly CNN Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, weighed in last week on a simmering disagreement in the Senate over the best way to address the nation’s vulnerability to cyberattacks. The two men, who now run the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Homeland Security project, are calling on senators to take…
NCAA Contacts FBI About Point Shaving Allegations at Auburn University
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The NCAA and Auburn University have contacted the FBI about point-shaving allegations involving the school’s men’s basketball program, CNN reported. “We are very concerned by the point-shaving allegations involving Auburn University men’s basketball program and have been in contact with the school and the FBI since the issue arose in February,” the…
FBI Kept File on Christopher Hitchens
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI kept a file on the late outspoken writer Christopher Hitchens, the website Historiographic Anarchy reports. The website reported that the FBI released through the Freedom of Information Act, 19 pages on Hitchens, some which show he was the subject of an FBI Foreign Counterintelligence probe. He died in December…
Minneapolis FBI Moves to the Burbs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Minnesota FBI, which also covers North and South Dakota, has moved. The Associated Press reports that the office has moved from downtown Minneapolis to a standalone facility in the suburb of Brooklyn Center, just northwest of the city. Features of the new facility include bulletproof glass and blast-proof walls.
FBI Appoints New Chief of Intelligence Division
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Eric Velez-Villar, deputy assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence Operations Branch at FBI Headquarters, is getting a bump up to assistant director of that division, the FBI announced this week. In testimony last month before the House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee on counterterrorism intelligence, Velez-Villar pledged the FBI’s cooperation with state…
Ex-Secret Service Agent Trashes Hillary Clinton in Book; Calls Her Aloof
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A tell-all book by an ex-Secret Service agent who worked the President Clinton detail is bound to ruffle some feathers inside the Beltway. The Examiner newspaper reports that ex-Secret Service agent Dan Emmett has written a self-published book “Within Arms’s Length” that “savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and…
LAPD and FBI Agent Killed Unarmed Suspect
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An investigation is underway in the fatal shooting of an unarmed double murder suspect, who was shot and killed last week by Los Angeles Police and an FBI agent, the Los Angeles Times reports. Initially, authorities said the man was armed. On Wednesday, the LAPD and FBI clarified the matter, the…
FBI Director Mueller Grilled on Release of Terrorist Cleric in 2002
By Catherine Herridge Fox News Several congressional committees want the FBI director to explain why one of his agents ordered the release of Anwar al-Awlaki from federal custody on Oct. 10, 2002, when there was an outstanding warrant for the American Muslim cleric’s arrest. “There are a number of committees interested in the facts of…