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Sting in North Texas Nets 28 “Outlaw” Motorcycle Gang Members
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com “Rebel Rider Ben” may ride no more. The 58-year-old of Alvarado, Tex., known to his mother as Benjamin Edward Neuner, sold five guns, 15 boxes of ammunition, smoke grenades and gun magazines to undercover FBI agents, reports the Star-Telegram newspaper. Neuner changed the rifling on the guns to make the bullets…
FBI Agents’ Email Show Concern Over Anti-Muslim Bias in Training
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com NPR has some new coverage of the anti-Muslim bias in FBI training. The radio station has obtained real-time emails from agents in the controversial Quantico training session which indicate that some agents, distressed by what they were being taught, complained to superiors and sought council from experts. “Generally, Mohammed was portrayed…
Ex-Secret Service Agent-Turned Executive on Trial in Foreign Bribery Sting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent, who rose through the ranks to become a deputy assistant director, is on trial in federal court in Washington in what Bloomberg news reports is the first prosecution of a foreign bribery based on a government sting run inside the U.S. Ex-agent R. Patrick Caldwell is…
Feds Bust Mass. Man for Plotting to Attack U.S. Capitol and Pentagon
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday busted a 26-year-old Massachusetts man in a sting in which he plotted to damage or destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol “using large remote controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives,” according to the Boston U.S. Attorney’s Office. Authorities also charged Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen residing…
Atty. Gen. Holder, FBI and Family Seek New Clues in 2001 Murder of Seattle Fed Prosecutor Thomas Wales
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Rumor Mill Working Overtime as Controversy Bubbles Between FBI and LA Sheriff’s Dept.
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The rumor mill has been working over time involving the controversy between FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that the FBI didn’t tell him about its investigation into inmate abuse, or the fact that the FBI, in an undercover sting, paid a sheriff’s deputy about…
Getting Acquitted May Not Be Enough to Get Off Terrorist Watch List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not be so easy to get off the terrorist watch list, the New York Times has found. The paper reported that the FBI is allowed to include people on the list who have been acquitted of terrorism related crimes or the crimes have been dismissed. The discovery comes after…