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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…
Ex-FBI Official Says the Media Distorts the Image of J. Edgar Hoover and His Sexuality
Anthony Riggio is a former lawyer who went on to work for the FBI for 24 years. He held a number of posts during that time including assistant special agent in charge of the Detroit office. He retired in 1995 as a senior executive at FBI headquarters. His column is in response to a ticklethewire.com story about…
Ex-FBI Agent and Prolific Author Paul Lindsay Did it His Way
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Paul Lindsay, the hard-digging FBI agent who became a prolific author, and wrote seven novels — the last two of which were N.Y. Times best sellers — died peacefully Thursday night at a Boston hospital of pneumonia with his family by his side. He was 68. The ex-Marine, who friends kidded…
FBI Says There’s Nothing There; Newspaper Report Suggests Links Between Saudi Family in Fla. and 9/11 Attackers
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something simply doesn’t jive if the the press reports are to believed. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that Steve Ibison, head of the Tampa FBI, said the agency found no connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a Saudi family who abandoned their Saraosta, Fla. home and new car several days…
FBI Says Training Lecture Critical of Devout Muslims Has Changed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI presentation at Quantico, Va., to agents that negatively portrayed devout Muslims, has been discontinued, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AP, citing a federal law enforcement official, said the lecture was given for just three days in April. One part of the lecture contended that the more devout Muslim are,…
Ex-FBI Dir. William Sessions Says Georgia Should Stay Execution of Inmate Convicted of Killing Cop
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director William S. Sessions is the latest to come forward and say the execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing a cop, should be halted because of “pervasive, persistent doubts” about his guilt. In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sessions, who was FBI…
FBI Teaches Agents: Mainstream Muslims Are “Violent, Radical”
By Spencer Ackerman WIRED (Danger Room) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground…