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FBI Hunting For Man Suspected of Murdering 3 on Montana Reservation
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents worked through the night Tuesday near the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, searching for the gunman suspected of killing an elderly woman, her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s boyfriend, reports Reuters. Suspect Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is “considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the FBI said in a statement. The shootings…
Anti-Muslim Teachings Spread Beyond FBI
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Charges of anti-Muslim teachings have spread beyond FBI training sessions, reports Wired.com. The tech magazine’s national security blog Danger Room has obtained a power point presentation made by an intelligence analyst working for the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Pennsylvania warning of a “civilizational jihad” waged in the U.S. by…
FBI Official Said Agency Did Not Try to Shape Outcome of J. Edgar Hoover Film
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The chief spokesman for the FBI tells USA Today that he did not try to shape the outcome of the upcoming movie on J. Edgar Hoover, which is supposed to portray the legendary director as being gay. The film is set to be released next month. Spokesman Mike Kortan, an…
Fundraiser for Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Pleads Guilty
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Another person close to former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has fallen. Longtime fundraiser for the “hip hop mayor” Emma Bell pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit to tax evasion, admitting that she received more than half a million dollars from various campaign fundraisers and never reported the money to…
EPA Investigator Pleads to Lying About Affair With FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency pleaded guilty Monday to lying in a civil case about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Texas, who worked in the EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Dallas, pleaded guilty in federal…
2 Somali Pirates Get Life in Deaths of S/V Quest Hijacking
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Somali pirates involved in the hijacking of the S/V Quest, which resulted in the death of four Americans, were sentenced Monday in Norfolk, Va. fed court to life in prison. Muhidin Salad Omar, 30, and Mahdi Jama Mohamed, who is about 24, admitted in the plea agreements that they participated in…
Medical Marijuana Growers Selling to Black Market, Complicating Matters
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Difficulties seem to be sprouting up like weeds as local governments across the country experiment with new laws and regulations concerning medical marijuana; the drug is still illegal and listed as a controlled substance by the federal government. A top federal law enforcement official in Oregan has declared that medical growers…
Big Management Shakeup Coming at ATF
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones in place, and the new fiscal year beginning, rumors are swirling about that ATF is soon expected to make a lot of changes in top management, which will result in a serious round of musical chairs. One rumor circulating within ATF is that Thomas…