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Ex-FBI Chief Spokesman John Miller Has Returned to TV
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you didn’t notice, John Miller, who headed the FBI’s public affairs office, and then moved on in 2009 to become assistant deputy director of intelligence analysis for the Office of Director of National Intelligence, has returned to TV. The New York Post recently reported that Miller showed up on…
FBI Ditches “Anti-Muslim” Materials
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has tossed out more than 700 documents and 3o0 presentations related to Islam following complaints that the bureau was using training materials that were factually inaccurate or wrongly stereotyping the religion, reports the Detroit Free Press. The FBI plans to go public with new rules on how to vet…
Sheriff Charged with Civil Rights Violations and Lying to FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A County Sheriff in Kentucky and his four deputies found themselves on the wrong end of a 10-count indictment, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The indictment charges that the defendants–Barren County Sheriff Christopher Easton and deputies Danny McGown, Aaron Bennett, Adam Minor, and Eric Guffey–violated a victim’s civil rights by using unreasonable force…
Congressman Michael Grimm — an Ex-FBI Agent — Keeps Suspicious Business Ties
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After leaving the FBI, Congressman Michael G. Grimm invested about a million bucks of borrowed money in a Texas real estate investment. Looking for a builder for the project, Grimm found a former FBI agent he had served with in New York–an agent who was at the time under indictment on…
John Boles to Head Up FBI’s Norfolk, Va. Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Boles has been named head of the FBI’s Norfolk, Va., office, the agency announced Friday. Boles, who last served as special assistant to the National Security Branch (NSB) executive assistant director and as section chief of the NSB Executive Staff Section, joined the bureau in 1995. He was first assigned…
Things Seemed Normal, But Calif. ICE Agent Never Came Home
By Victoria Kim and Paloma Esquivel Los Angeles Times Ezequiel Garcia, a longtime federal immigration agent, had told his wife of problems at work. But when she called him at the office Thursday, everything seemed normal. They talked about having Korean barbecue for dinner. Before he could go home, however, he had to meet with…
Moroccan Man Busted in FBI Sting Plotting Suicide Attack at Capitol
Update: Authorities identified the man as Amine El Khalifi, 29, of Alexandria, Va., an immigrant from Morocco who was illegally in the U.S. By Mike Levine Fox News Authorities have arrested a man allegedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide attack on one of the nation’s…
Muslim Groups Want Input in FBI Training Material
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anti-terrorism training materials used by the FBI could be changing. The Religion News Service reports that the FBI said it is willing to consider a proposal from a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups to create a committee to review materials. The FBI recently removed some materials from training after they…