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President Obama Says of ATF’s Fast and Furious: “People Who Screwed Up Will be Held Accountable”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The seriousness of the screw up with ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious has apparently not been lost at the White House. “People who have screwed up will be held accountable, President Obama told reporter Jake Tapper on ABC’s “Nightline.” “Our overarching goal consistently has been to say we’ve got a responsibility…
![FBI in New Mexico Releases Images, Seeks Help in Finding Bodies Linked to Suspected Serial Killer](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fbi-aq-3.jpg)
FBI in New Mexico Releases Images, Seeks Help in Finding Bodies Linked to Suspected Serial Killer
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Seeking the public’s help, the FBI in Albuquerque has released hundreds of images of items collected during the investigation of suspected serial killer David Parker Ray. Ray died in 2002 while serving more than 223-years in a state prison in connection with the kidnapping of two women who said he sexually…
![Late Rep. Murtha Was Under FBI Investigation](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/john-murtha1.jpg)
Late Rep. Murtha Was Under FBI Investigation
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents spent more than two years investigating the late Rep. John Murtha, moving to expand their ongoing investigation into a full public corruption probe just months before he passed, reports the Washington Post. Investigators were looking into whether the Pennsylvania Democrat was using his positions as defense appropriations chairman-a position…
![FBI Subcommittee Recommends New Definition of Rape](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/iStock_000009069522XSmall.jpg)
FBI Subcommittee Recommends New Definition of Rape
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After much talk, an FBI subcommittee made recommendations Tuesday to update the definition of rape for the first time in 80 years. The recommendations came out of a meeting in Baltimore by a subcommittee of law enforcement officials and will head next to an advisory panel, reports the Baltimore Sun. The advisory panel…
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Column: The Wrong Way to Fight Terrorism
Salam Al-Marayati is president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. By Salam Al-Marayati Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page We in the Muslim American community have been battling the corrupt and bankrupt ideas of cults such as Al Qaeda. Now it seems we also have to battle pseudo-experts in the FBI and the Department of…
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Chinese National Pleads to Theft of Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In Indiana, in the heart of the Midwest, a Chinese national working for two major U.S. companies pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing trade secrets about food products and pesticides and giving them to people in China and Germany, the Justice Department announced. It marked the first time ever that the…
![Sen. Grassley Writes FBI Director; Concerned About Boston FBI’s Mobster Informant Mark Rossetti](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mueller-younger-photo.jpg)
Sen. Grassley Writes FBI Director; Concerned About Boston FBI’s Mobster Informant Mark Rossetti
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger? A letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III seems to suggest so. If you recall, the Boston FBI caught hell for letting Bulger run wild and commit crimes while he acted as informant and snitched on his rivals back in…