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New Head of Jacksonville FBI Office Was Never Discouraged by Gender
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Michelle Klimt was eating dinner with her dad in the 1970s when he grumbled about women becoming FBI agents, the Florida Times-Union reported. He was a special agent at the time. “And I sat there and said, ‘Hey dad, I can do what you do now.’ He never complained again and was…
FBI Investigates Bogus Miami Heat Tickets Following Expensive Scams
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the sale of bogus tickets for Miami Heat basketball games after a former NFL Hall of Fame player was scammed out of first-row seats and $200,000, WPTV.com reports. Quarterback Warren Moon was reportedly scammed, along with other NFL players Charles Woodson and Jarvis Green. The FBI confirmed it…
Accountant-Turned-FBI Agent Becomes Oregon’s Next Top FBI Official
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will become special agent in charge of Oregon’s FBI office, The Oregonian reports. Bretzing, 47, will take over on March 31. Bretzing, whose father was an FBI agent, served as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past…
Illegal Immigrants Have ‘Earned the Right to Be Citizens,’ DHS Secretary Says
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com About 11 million illegal immigration in the U.S. have “earned the right to be citizens,” said new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. The Daily Mail reports that Johnson called for “comprehensive, common sense, immigration reform” during his speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. “An earned path to citizenship…
Snowden Says U.S. Authorities Want to Kill Him After Their Anonymous Remarks in Media
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed Sunday that U.S. officials “want to kill me,” the Daily Mail reports. In an interview with a German TV station, Snowden cited an anonymous Pentagon official quoted as saying, “I would love to put a bullet in his head.” An NSA analyst was quoted as saying he…
Parker: Bravo to DEA’s Michele Leonhart for Criticizing the President’s Remarks About Pot
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart was apparently critical of President Obama’s recent remarks about marijuana in a closed-door session with the Major Counties’ Sheriff’s…
How the Feds Gave “Macy’s Bargain-Basement-Style” Guilty Pleas in Mob Case Because of A Very Shady Witness Who Was Convicted of Sexually Soliciting a Teen
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Did fed prosecutors in a mob waste hauling case in Manhattan give two hold-out defendants a sweet plea deal to avoid putting on the witness stand a key FBI undercover operative who was convicted of soliciting sex from a teen girl? That likely appears to be the case, according a story…