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Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller III Breaks Tradition, Speaks Out About Challenges Facing Bureau
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Since taking the helm at the FBI just a week before the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks, Robert Mueller has managed to avoid the limelight. But now that he’s retiring after 12 years with the bureau, the FBI director is opening up about his service. Most recently, NPR reports, the decorated former…
FBI: Air Force Officer Accused of Breaking Lobbying Law with Lucrative Private Sector Job
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As an Air Force captain, Adam J. Pudenz oversaw contracts to provide boots to Afghan soldiers. Now Pudenz earns $40,000-a-month working for the company that was selling the boots, ABC News reports. The FBI accuses Carroll, an Iowa resident of violating a ban on representing companies that he oversees when he took…
Outgoing FBI Director Mueller III Speaks About How Sept. 11 Changed the FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Outgoing FBI Director Robert S Mueller III never imagined that his bureau would be consumed with the fight on terror. After all, Mueller started his job as director a week before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like,…
Special Agent in Charge of Milwaukee FBI Assigned to Building Division in D.C.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Head of the FBI’s Milwaukee office, Teresa Carlson, is temporarily working at the Facilities and Logistics Services Division at headquarters in Washington D.C. while authorities investigate claims that she pressured a subordinate to commit perjury, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Still, Carlson remains the special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office,…
Congressman to FBI: ‘Why Won’t You Come in And Talk to Us’
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. William Keating touched on a new FBI directive is urging the bureau to share information with local police about terrorist threats, the Boston Herald reports. He wants to talk to the FBI. “That’s news to me,” Keating, a Homeland Security Committee member, said. “If there’s something through these directives and…
Reporter in Washington D.C. Learns FBI Was Monitoring His Calls to Disgraced D.C. Councilman
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A tenacious reporter who covers urban affairs and the D.C. Council received a troubling email from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: His voice was picked up after agents tapped the cell phones of now-disgraced Councilman Michael Brown, WUSA9 reports. “I’m not going to be surprised if I call someone at some point in…
Writer William Vollmann Says FBI Suspected Him of Being Unabomber, Terrorist
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few authors write with as much insight into violence and war as William Vollmann. The winner of a National Book Award, Vollmann revealed in a Harper’s essay, “Life as a Terrorist,” that he was suspected of being a terrorist and even the Unabomber because of the content of his fiction, the Washington…
FBI, NSA Monitored Emails, Texts in Salt Lake City Area During Winter Olympics in 2002
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and NSA monitored all emails and text messages in the Salt Lake City area in 2002 when the city was hosting the Winter Olympics, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Unnamed officials said the two agencies worked with Qwest Communications to intercept communications for nearly six months. Former Sen. Bob Bennett,…