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Hundreds of Employees Gather to Commemorate the Deaths of 54 FBI Agents Killed In the Line of Duty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Hundreds of employees and a host of Washington luminaries including the current and former FBI directors gathered Tuesday at FBI headquarters to commemorate the deaths of 54 agents killed in the line of duty. “We come together today because we have not forgotten the cost of freedom. We have…
The State of the White Supremacists
With the old leaders gone, the White Supremacist movement is at a crossroads. Will the election of an African American president and a soured economy help recruiting? Will the racist white power recording industry help the movement? FBI agent Tom O’Connor of the Washington Field Office discusses the movement and the FBI’s concerns.
Chicago FBI Agent Closer to Publishing Book Critical of Agency’s Investigations of Islamic Groups
It’s not good when a federal judge, as in this case, refers to the FBI’s efforts as censoring. The publicity from the book will be bad for the FBI, but so will its efforts to try and keep the agent from publishing it. By Todd Lighty Chicago Tribune A Chicago-based FBI agent has moved a…
Bank Robber Gets Over 117 Years For Stickups that Included Death of FBI Agent
Slain Agent Barry Lee Bush/fbi photo Unfortunately the sentence can’t bring back FBI agent Barry Lee Bush. But it does amount to a life sentence. By Carmine DeMarco Bergen NOW TRENTON, NJ – The leader of a bank robbery gang whose spree included an attempted robbery during which an FBI Special Agent was tragically killed…
Many FBI Employees Believe Higher Ranking Members Get Preferential Treatment When it Comes to Discipline
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — When it comes to discipline, are higher-ranking members of the FBI likely to get better treatment than lower ranking ones? A Department of Justice Inspector General report released Monday concluded that many employees thought so. “We found that a significant percentage of FBI employees we surveyed believed that there…
How We Got Our Son Off The Terrorist Watch List
The silly problems with the FBI’s terrorist list is perhaps best exemplified with this story by Mary Jacoby, founder of the new website Main Justice. Here’s her amusing — and not so amusing– story about her son Charlie. By Mary Jacoby Main Justice WASHINGTON — The release last week of a Department of Justice Inspector…
New 2010 Budget Reveals FBI’s Development of New Surveillance Technology
The FBI, which has been criticized in the past for not always being up to snuff in the area of computers, is trying to advance its high-tech capabilities. The money is there. Now it’s up to the bureau to follow through. By Jason Ryan ABC NEWS WASHINGTON — The release of the 2010 budget request…
FBI to Pay $879,550 For Scientific Review of Deadly Anthrax Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nine months after the real suspect in the anthrax killings committed suicide, there are still plenty unanswered questions as to why the FBI let its top investigator on the case focus for so long on the wrong guy, Steven Hatfill, even after some investigators and prosecutors expressed serious skepticism…