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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…
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…