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India News Outlets Report Mueller and Agents to Visit India Next Week
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — News outlets in India are reporting that FBI director Robert Mueller III and a group of FBI agents plan to visit that country next week to pursue a terrorism investigation. The website Indiaserver.com reported that the agents will follow up on an investigation into suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley…
Kansas Man Charged With Shooting at FBI Violent Crime Task Force
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 26-year-old man was charged earlier this week with possession of a firearm after felony convictions after he tried to avoid arrest by shooting at members of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force in the Kansas City, Ks., area. According to an FBI affidavit, task force members tried to arrest Nicholas…
2 Secret Service Vehicles Hit and Kill Man in D.C. Area
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A man was killed Wednesday after being hit by two armored Secret Service vehicles on a freeway at the D.C.-Maryland border, the Washington Post reported. One of the cars, a limo, is sometimes used by Vice President Biden. The man, whose name had not been released as of Wednesday,…
FBI Accuses Baltimore DEA Task Force Member of Embezzlement and Lying: Harms Drug Cases
Crooked DEA task force member, Mark James Lunsford, a Baltimore police detective, is causing some big problems. City paper reporter Van Smith lays it all out in this report. Balt. Detective’s Sykesville, Md. home the FBI raided/ baltimore city paper photo By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — On Aug. 3, Ira Jimmy Martin…
Ex-FBI Agent and Former TV Anchor Thomas Wassell Dead at Age 84
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Wassell, a former FBI agent who went on to become well-known Atlanta TV news anchor, has died at age 84 in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Wassell worked as an agent from 1951 to 1960 in Chicago and Miami and later went on to become an anchorman at WSB-tv in…
FBI Probing Death Threat of Washington State Rep Over Healthcare
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has taken over an investigation into an alleged death threat aimed at Democratic Rep. Brian Baird of Washington state over the healthcare furor, the Columbian newspaper reported. The paper reported that the U.S. Capitol Police, which had been investigating the matter, confirmed that the FBI was probing…
President’s Nominee to Head TSA Was Censured as FBI Agent
This probably won’t be enough to block his confirmation, but it certainly doesn’t help. By Ed O’Keefe The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s airport security officers received a censure from the FBI in 1988 after asking a San Diego police officer to run a background check on his ex-wife’s…