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Opinion: Former Justice Dept. Spokesman Says FBI handled Petraeus Investigation Properly
Matthew Miller is a partner at Vianovo. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. By Matthew Miller Politico Since the news of CIA Director David Petraeus’s extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell broke last week, members of Congress have demanded to…
Drunk Man Accused of Threatening Family Members of an FBI Agent
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com There’s an old, time-tested rule: Don’t make phone calls while you’re really inebriated. Peter Joseph Persico apparently couldn’t help himself at a Florida bar when he called the FBI office in Albany and unleashed a torrent of profanity directed at an agent, the Albany Times Union reports. Still fuming after he was…
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Massive Explosion that Killed 2 in Indianapolis May Have Been Caused by Furnace
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A massive explosion in Indianapolis that killed two people and forced the evacuation of 200 others may have been caused by a faulty furnace, said the ex-husband of the woman whose house was at the center of the blast, the Indianapolis Star reports. Local police said the cause of the fire won’t…
David Petraeus Investigation Expands to Top US Commander in Afganistan
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ever-evolving investigation into CIA Director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair has expanded to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, who is accused of inappropriate communication with the woman at the center of the scandal, Reuters reports. The FBI uncovered up to 30,000 pages of communication, mostly e-mails, between Allen…
Anti-Terrorism Expert Advises Against Technology Upgrade to Detect Biological Attacks
Steve Neavling ticklethewie.com A top anti-terrorism for Homeland Security advised the agency to ditch a $3.1 billion upgrade of the nation’s system for detecting biological attacks because it would be unreliable, the Los Angeles Times reports. Dr. Tara O’Toole, the agency’s undersecretary for science and technology, privately told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the…
U.S. Customs Officers Help Deliver Baby at Texas-Mexico Border
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.om Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers helped deliver a baby girl at a South Texas border, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The mother, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, was a passenger in a car Saturday at a bridge between Brownsville, Tex. and Matamoros, Mexico when the driver alerted the U.S. Customs and…
Patraeus Email Scandal Grows Richer: FBI Agent Sent Shirtless Photo to Woman Who Complained
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now this is starting to sound like a full-blown, made for the big-screen Washington scandal. Reporters Devlin Barrett, Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal report that the FBI agent who started the probe into Patraeus scandal, was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received…