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Fugitive Thinks Ex-FBI Agent Who Vanished in Iran is Dead
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is former FBI agent Robert Levinson who vanished in Iran three years ago, dead? An American-born Muslim convert Hassan Abdulraham, who is wanted for the 1980 murder of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland, says most likely Yes, Fox News reports. Abdulraham, who was editor of Iran’s state run Press TV…
Column: NYPD “Cowboy Behavior” Screws FBI in Terrorism Case
Len Levitt wrote the police column “One Police Plaza” for Newsday for 10 years and has worked for several other publications including Time magazine. His website is nypdconfidential.com By Len Levitt nypdconfidential.com There is more cause for concern about the NYPD’s Lone Cowboy behavior the more we learn about the department’s dealings with the Queens…
FBI Has Doubled Number of Agents Assigned to Counterterrorism since 2001; Numbers Down for Criminal Matters
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In what really comes as no surprise, the FBI has doubled the number of agents assigned to counterterrorism since 2001. Jeff Stein of Spy Talk, a blog for the Washington Post, reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported in fiscal 2009 “the FBI used 26 percent…
Fear of Pro-Gun Lobby Groups in Election Year Leaves ATF Without Senate-Confirmed Leader
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There have been times when ATF has felt like the stepchild in the world of law enforcement — particularly when compared to the FBI. This may be one of those times. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that 15 months after President Obama has taken office, the White House has yet…
New D.C. U.S. Attorney Ron Machen Comfortable in the Streets
D.C.’s new U.S. Attorney Ron Machen says he’s comfortable on the streets and in any environment. That may help a guy who heads up a U.S. Attorney’s Office that not only handles federal cases but local crimes as well. By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Then-U.S. Attorney Eric H. Holder sat…
Column: 15 Years After the Oklahoma Bombing, We Must Not Forget the Potential of Homegrown Terrorism
This column was reprinted from a year ago. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One Friday, two days after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, I was sitting at my desk at the Detroit News in downtown Detroit when I got a tip that the FBI was raiding a farmhouse in Michigan, and it had…
Do the Troops Trust Ex-FBI Agent Jody Weis — Chicago’s Police Chief?
It’s not easy being an outsider in a police department with a rich tradition of people rising through the ranks. It also doesn’t help to have come from the FBI. Have the troops accepted ex-FBI agent Jody Weis as Chicago’s Police chief? He says yes, but tells the Chicago News Cooperative:”There will be a certain…
Mayor Bloomberg Urges Atty. Gen. Holder To Decide Soon on Venue for 9/11 Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — better known in the N.Y. tabloids as “Bloomy” — wants Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to make up his mind already about where he’ll try five 9/11 suspects including the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the New York Post reports. Quoting a response to…