By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com During his colorful career with ATF, which spanned more than three decades, James Cavanaugh found himself in the thick of some of nation’s biggest cases: The D.C. sniper murders, the Unabomber, white supremacist Eric Rudolph, church burnings and the deadly shootout at the Branch Davidian in Waco, Tex. involving leader David…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman, the FBI’s associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch, has some added duties. On top of her current job, she will also become assistant director of the FBI’s Training Division. The FBI said in “her new role, she will assume additional responsibilities for all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Veteran prosecutor Jim Zerhusen for the Eastern District of Kentucky called it quits on Friday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Zerhusen, 59, who had worked in the office in various jobs since 1980, plans to do some traveling, the paper reported. President Obama has appointed Kerry Harvey to fill the spot, but…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas J. Padden, the FBI agent who arrested fugitive Patricia Hearst in 1975, has died at age 84 in San Rafael, Calif. after a prolonged illness, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Padden specialized in bank robbery and fraud and was known as the agent, along with San Francisco cop Tim Casey,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — More than a year into his presidency, President Obama continues to slowly inch toward finishing his U.S. Attorney appointments. On Thursday, President Obama nominated Melinda L. Haag, a former federal prosecutor, for U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Calif.; Jerry E. Martin, a private attorney, for the Middle…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James C. Trainor, Jr., an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, is hopping over to the New York office to become the special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division. Trainor joined the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the Chicago office where…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ernest Reith has been named associate executive assistant director of the FBI’s Science and Technology Branch. The FBI said Reith started his career in 1985 as a regional analyst at the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) in St. Louis, Missouri “where he developed and maintained geospatial intelligence databases of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for screening passengers at our nation’s airports, is getting an interesting addition: Nawar Shora, the legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The Washington Post reports that Shora, who was born in Syria and raised in West Virginia, is joining the agency…
