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For 2nd Time in Less than a Week, Rep. Cummings Blasts Rep. Issa Over Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the second time in less than a week, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings has publicly blasted Republican Rep. Darrell Issa over ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen, all with the hopes of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels. ATF lost track of…
Minn. Women Convicted of Material Support for Terrorists
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It wasn’t the Avon lady. It wasn’t even two generous ladies seeking donations for the poor and needy of Somalia they claimed to be. Amina Farah Ali, 35, and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 64, two naturalized U.S. citizens from Somalia living in Rochester, Minn., were convicted Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis…
Ex-Amusement Park Worker Convicted of Threatening FBI Agent, Estranged Wife and Others Via Facebook
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony Delonis tested his First Amendment rights in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania via Facebook and lost. The Legal Intelligencer reported that a federal jury on Thursday convicted him of threatening people through Facebook postings including an FBI agent, his estranged wife, the Pennsylvania State Police and the…
DEA Busts NY Doctor for Writing Scripts to Drug Gang
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Manhattan doctor has been supplying street gangs with the powerful painkiller Oxycodone for street sale, authorities say. Dr. Felix Rodriguez was arrested when DEA agents and deputy U.S. Marshals raided his offices Wednesday morning , reports NBC New York. The internal medicine doctor wrote hundreds of prescriptions for gang members…
Gay Rights Advocates Weigh in on Upcomig J. Edgar Hoover Film that Portrays Him as Gay
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There has been an avalanche of opinions voiced by ex-FBI agents and current ones over the upcoming film “J Edgar” and his portrayal as being gay. Now, some Gay rights advocates are weighing in. “I don’t know specifically why current officers object to the claim that Hoover was gay,” Jacob Appel,…
FBI Dir. Mueller Honored Along With Some Who Played Role in Russian Spy Network
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert Mueller was awarded one of the Justice Departments highest honors on Wednesday for his “outstanding professionalism and exemplary integrity,” reports CNN. The award was one of more than 300 commendations, forty-nine of them among intelligence officials, including counterespionage agents, for their roles in catching 10 Russian secret agents…
FBI Probing Airplane Outburst that Grounded Flight
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Florida man’s airplane outburst that caused a Southwest Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Texas on Tuesday. It was a complete shock to Ali Reza Shahsavari’s family when news came that the 29-year-old was arrested on charges of interfering with a flight crew, according…
Teresa Carlson to Head FBI’s Milwaukee Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Teresa L. Carlson, FBI section chief in the Directorate of Intelligence, has been named the new head of the Milwaukee Division. Carlson, a 19-year veteran of the FBI, started her career in the Chicago Division where she worked violent crimes and public corruption cases. While in Chicago, she was a case…