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FBI Investigating Hacker Attack on Celebrities; Nude Photos of Scarlett Johansson Stolen
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A scandal in Hollywood is brewing — and this time it doesn’t involve some affair, but rather a hacker. The Associated Press and Fox News reported that the FBI is investigating a series of computer hacking attacks on celebrities including Scarlett Johansson. Personal information and other materials were stolen. FBI spokeswoman…
Las Vegas Man Fuming He Didn’t Get Any of FBI’s $2 Mil Reward for Capture of Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Las Vegas man is fuming over the fact the FBI has written a $2 million reward check to an Iceland woman who reportedly tipped off authorities about the whereabouts of fugitive mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in June. The Boston Herald reported that Keith Messina, 45, the manager of a Subway…
Author Ronald Kessler Says 100 Percent Chance His House and Car Are Bugged
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Is New York Times best selling author Ronald Kessler a little paranoid or just a little more important in the eyes of the FBI than the average Joe? Kessler, author of “The Secrets of the FBI”, tells Politico there’s “about a hundred percent chance that both his house and car are bugged.”…
Those Whacky Salahis — the Party Crashers Who Were Targets of Criminal Probe — Grab Headlines Again
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com That whacky couple — Tareq and Michaele Salahi — who crashed the White House party in November 2009 and ended up being the target of a long drawn out and fruitless criminal investigation, were grabbing some rather weird headlines in the Washington media on Wednesday. The media reported earlier in the…
Column: Ex-FBI Official Says Media Distorts 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…
Clint Eastwood: “I Don’t Give a Crap if (Hoover) Was Gay or Not.”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Leonardo DiCaprio and director Clinton Eastwood for J. Edgar seem to be very circumspect when discussing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s sexuality and their film on Hoover that is set to be released in November. The film is called “J. Edgar.” USA Today reports that in an interview in GQ magazine…
FBI Assigns 2 Agents to N.O. Police Internal Affairs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has assigned two agents to work full time in the New Orleans Police Department’s internal affairs unit, another move in a concerted effort to unearth corruption in the troubled department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time,” said David Welker, special…
FBI Never Publicly Disclosed Saudi Couple Abandoning Home With New Car Right Before Sept. 11
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is there even more about the Saudi connection to 9/11 that we didn’t know about? Well, ex-Sen. Bob Graham, former co-chair of a Congressional inquiry after the September 11, 2001, seems to think so and is calling for the U.S. government to reopen its probe in wake of a news report…