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Keith L. Bennett named FBI Assist. Director of the Inspection Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Keith L. Bennett, deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Training Division, is getting a bump up to assistant director of the agency’s Inspection Division, the FBI announced Wednesday. Bennett began his career as an FBI special agent in 1987 and was initially assigned to the Salt Lake City Division, where…
Former Leaders of FBI, DEA Urge Stricter Privacy Laws in GPS Tracking
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The tension between effective law enforcement and personal privacy is always present to some degree, but has certainly intensified in the decade following 9/11. Now, a bipartisan group including former FBI and DEA leaders are calling for new safeguards to protect individuals’ personal privacy. The Constitution Project, a D.C.-based think tank,…
What the Heck is Up With IHOP? FBI Agents Raid 7 of its Restaurants
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What the heck is up with IHOP? Earlier this month, a deranged gunman walked into a Carson City, Nev. IHOP and opened fire. Now the Associated Press reports this week that FBI agents executed search warrants at six IHOP restaurants in northwest Ohio and one in Indiana. AP reported that the…
Head of Chicago FBI Says al-Qaida Still Obsessed With Planes; Office is Probing Mail Bombs
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A decade later and it appears that al-Qaeda members are still trying to turn airplanes into deadly weapons. “Al-Qaida has been obsessed with airplanes, they continue to be obsessed with airplanes,” said Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI., according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “They want to use airplanes to kill…
FBI’s JTTF in D.C. Will Be Among Those Honored at ADL Awards Ceremony
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members and partners of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office, who were involved in a sting that targeted a plot to blow up the Washington area subway system in 2010, will be among those honored Oct. 4 in Washington at the Anti Defamation League’s second annual…
First Release of Trailer of Upcoming Film “J. Edgar”
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST D.C. Sees 25% Jump in Rapes (AP) Atty. Gen. Holder Wants Gitmo Closed by 2012 (Montreal Gazette) Teen Murder Suspect Sued by Older Brother (Courthouse News Service) U.S. Atty. in Washington State Speaks Out About Skimming; Was Victim Herself (Main Justice) FBI Claimed Controversial Islamic Training Seminar Ended in April Even…
Louie Freeh and Tom Ridge: Angels Protecting Us or Just Hired Guns for the Gambling Industry?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh and Tom Ridge, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Angels protecting us from evil, or just hired guns for the gambling industry? If you read the press release by FairPlayUSA, you’d think they were here to save us from the evil. FairPlayUSA announced that Freeh…
FBI Says Violent Crime Dropped in 2010
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crime in the United States dipped about 6 percent in 2010, marking a drop in the stats for the fourth straight year, the FBI reported Monday. In 2009, the rate dropped by 5.4 percent. The last increase came in 2006. In 2010, the murder rate dropped 4.2 percent; aggravated assaults…