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Nevada Man With Fascination for Va. Tech Killings Faces Fed Charges For Sending Threatening Emails
This story comes under the category of “scary people with guns”. With 13 guns and three bullet-proof vests, who knows what this guy was capable of doing. By Allison Klein Washington Post Staff Writer As the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre approaches, federal prosecutors are preparing a criminal case against a Nevada man…
Ex-FBI Agent Featured in Tv Episode on Steroids
ticklethewire.com columnist Greg Stejskal is featured in an episode on the Investigation Discovery network about steroids. By Amalie Nash Ann Arbor News ANN ARBOR, Mi. — Retired Ann Arbor FBI Agent Greg Stejskal jokes that he was hoping Clint Eastwood would play him. Stejskal is indeed portrayed by an actor – not exactly Eastwood, though…
FBI Probing Missouri State Lawmakers
A major scandal is brewing in Missouri. One lawmaker has even recorded conversation of suspect lawmakers. This should be interesting as it continues to unfold. By Steve Kraske Kansas City Star FBI agents are investigating Missouri lawmakers in connection with several alleged “pay for play” schemes in which legislative favors are bestowed only after campaign…
FBI and ATF Bust Drug-Dealing Philly Cop
It’s always a good day when the feds can take a crooked cop off the street. Unfortunately, most big city police departments have too many. By DAVID GAMBACORTA Philadelphia Daily News PHILADELPHIA — ALHINDE WEEMS, armed with his gun and Philadelphia police badge, allegedly was pumped and ready to go. After weeks of covert meetings…
FBI Dir. Mueller Presents 42 Honorary Medals
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Three FBI agents wounded during a 2008 bombing in Pakistan were among 38 FBI and other law enforcement people awarded honorary FBI medals by the director Robert S. Mueller III during a standing- room only ceremony at headquarters Friday. In all, Mueller presented 42 honorary FBI medals to the…
FBI Promoting Diversity With Interesting Pitch
By Al Kamen Washington Post Columnist WASHINGTON –The FBI is interested in showing its commitment to diversity. So on its employment Web site, at http://www.fbijobs.gov/421.asp, it touts an “American Indian/Native Alaskan” initiative. Alas, the bureau is using a picture on that page of a former special agent, Elizabeth Morris, who alleges that she was retaliated…
Phoenix FBI Agent Pleads Guility to Having an Affair With the Wife of a Man He Was Investigating
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The libido of an FBI agent in Phoenix is likely to land him in prison. Agent Joe L. Gordwin, 40, of Phoenix pleaded guilty earlier this week in U.S. District Court to wire fraud charges for carrying on an improper sexual relationship with the wife of a criminal he was investigating,…
Things We Still Don’t Know About Airport Security on 9/11
As Andrew Cochran points out, there’s so much we still don’t know about what happened on 9/11. Time for some of that transparency the Obama administration has promised. By Andrew Cochran Counterterrorism Blog Here is what we still don’t know, over seven years after the 9/11 attacks, about airline and airport security on that day:…