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Baltimore FBI Building to Be Named After Slain Agent Sam Hicks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s Baltimore field office will be named after agent Sam Hicks, who was killed last Nov. 19 in a shooting in the Pittsburgh area while serving an arrest warrant in a drug case, the Associated Press reported. The AP reported that Hicks’ wife Brooke and their son Noah…
Son of CIA Case Officer Takes Charge of FBI Salt Lake City Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James McTighe, the son of a CIA case officer, will take charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, replacing Timothy J. Fuhrman, who was recently named special agent in charge of the Mobile, Ala. office. McTighe had last served as special assistant for deputy director John Pistole at…
Column: Prediction on Sentencing for Rep. William Jefferson: The Judge Won’t Give him What the Prosecution Suggests
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – It’s almost judgment day for ex-Rep. William Jefferson, the New Orleans Congressman who at one time seemed invincible. That was at one time. Last year, he lost his seat in a bid for a 10th term. Then this past summer he was convicted by a federal jury on 11…
FBI Says No Information that Ft. Hood Shooter Plotted With Others
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The FBI issued a statement Monday on the Fort Hood, Tex., shooting, saying that “at this point there is no information to indicate Major Malik Nidal Hasan had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot.” “ The investigation to date has not identified a motive, and a…
FBI’s Shawn Henry Talks About Prospects of Cyber Jihad Attacks
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FBI’s Rich Kolko and Brian Hale Leaving FBI Mothership
Rich Kolko (left) and FBI’s Jeff McCrehan at going away party/ticklethewire.com photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Two key people in the FBI’s National Press Office have just left the mothership to take on duties elsewhere. FBI special agent Rich Kolko, chief of the FBI’s National Press Office, is moving up to the FBI’s…
Ex-Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales Puts Va. Home Up For Sale
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is leaving behind more than just a shaky legacy. The Atty. General, now a professor and administrator at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Tex., has put his McLean, Va. hamlet up for sale for 1.075 mil, according to the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column. The…