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New FBI Agents, Analysts Required to Visit MLK Monument in Washington
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All new FBI agents and analysts must visit the monument for the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., new FBI Director James Comey said Monday, Reuters reports. The idea, he said, is to remind people of the African American struggles for equality. For similar reasons, new agents and analysts also…
Obama Sings James Comey’s Praises During Welcoming Ceremony for New FBI Director
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama officially welcomed James Comey to his new post as FBI director during a ceremony Monday at the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The president applauded what he called Comey’s judgment and commitment, according to a White House blog. “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity: That’s your motto,” the President told the men and women…
Audit: FBI Makes Big Strides in Handling Confidential Informants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is doing a better job handling confidential informants after a scathing report in 2006 criticized the agency’s dealings with sources, McLatchy reports. Since the initial report, “the FBI has made substantial changes in its management of confidential human sources.” Concerns were first raised in 2006 when it was discovered that…
Washington Times to Sue After Homeland Security Seizes Notes, Records from Reporter’s Home
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Washington Times is planning to sue the federal government after armed Homeland Security agents raided the home of a reporter and seized her notes, the newspaper reports. Reporter Audrey Hudson is an award-winning reporter who has exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department’s Federal Air Marshals Service. She said agents seized…
FBI Director Comey Warns of Hundreds of Furloughs if Sequestration Continues
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey warned that he may have to furlough 600 employees if Congress doesn’t restore the bureau’s budget, the Houston Press reports. Comey also said he’d be forced to cut 3,500 jobs. The result could be disastrous, he said, because the bureau will have a more difficult time handling investigations….
Ex-Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi Gets 3 Years in Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona was sentenced Monday in Tucson to three years in prison for extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering. His co-defendant, James Sandlin, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for his role. Renzi, 55, of Burke, Va., and Sandlin, 62, of Sherman, Texx….
Parker: Supreme Court to Decide Who Gets to Define “Mentally Retarded” for Purposes of the Death Penalty
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 The cut-off IQ for the death penalty in Florida is 70 or less. Freddie Lee Hall scored a 71. He has been…
FBI, CIA Could Have Prevented Assassination of JFK Had They Heeded Warnings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and CIA missed opportunities to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by not taking seriously enough threats from Lee Harvey Oswald, according to Philip Shenon’s new book, “A Cruel and Shocking Act,” reports the Orland Sentinel. Days before the assassination, the president’s administration found a threatening note addressed…