Officials Meet to Try and Lure FBI Headquarters to Northern Virginia

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Virginia is continuing its push to lure a new FBI headquarters. Oldtown Alexandria Patch reports that local, state and congressional leaders met Thursday in Arlington to discuss six potential sites in Northern Virginia for the headquarters. Patch wrote: Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, who called the meeting, said leaders from Fairfax,…

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DEA Agent Is Accused of Sending a Prostitute to Visit Secret Service Agent in Colombia?

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  A DEA agent is accused of sending a prostitute to a Secret Service agent in Colombia while the pair were in the country working, the Huffington Post reports, citing a Justice Department report. The reports says a Secret Service supervisory agent received a massage and sex while preparing for President Obama’s visit….

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DEA Agent in New Orleans Retiring Following Newspaper Report on Potential Conflict of Interest

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jimmy S. Fox,  the special agent in charge of the DEA’S office in New Orleans,  is retiring after a newspaper report exposed a potential conflict of interest, the Times-Picayune reports. The newspaper wrote that Fox was bidding to oversee a consent decree between the Justice Department and the city of New Orleans….

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Critics: FBI Violates Federal Law with Cell Phone Tracking Technology

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  New records show the FBI is using a controversial cell phone tracking technology that dupes phones into using a fake network, Slate reports. The idea is to track the movements of suspects in real time, Slate reported. But communication is not intercepted. The technology, called “Stingray,” is controversial because it collects data from…

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