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ATF Reinventing Itself After Reputation Damage
By Evan Perez Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives brings fewer than a hundred alcohol and tobacco cases a year. It now plays second fiddle to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on explosives. And its skill at catching firearms violators is in doubt after the flawed probe known…
Column: Ex-FBI Agent Says Law Enforcement Needs to Address Mental Illness
John Kerr, an FBI agent for nearly 22 years, investigated violent crime and counterterrorism. He retired from the bureau in Washington in December 2008. His column is in response to a ticklethewire.com column that commented on the mass shootings in this country and the need for law enforcement to look at mental illness as a…
Justice Department May Release “Legally Innocent” Prisoners
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department will no longer fight the release of prisoners who have been deemed “legally innocent,” the USA Today reports. The department’s move, announced Monday, follows a USA Today investigation that found more than 60 people were imprisoned even though an appeals court later determined they did not commit a federal…
Ex-FBI Cyber Security Expert Heads to Private Sector
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former top FBI cyber security expert is headed to the private sector to join Kroll Advisory Solutions as the new managing director, Virtual-Strategy Magazine reports. Timothy P. Ryan, former supervisory special agent and cyber investigations and security expert, will join a team of digital forensic specialists who to investigate cyber crime…
Column: 30 Years Later Retired FBI Agent Still Tries to Keep U of M Football Team on the Straight and Narrow
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In 1982 legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler called the FBI office in Ann Arbor. Bo wanted the FBI to talk to his team primarily about the perils…
FBI: Poor Food, Medical Care Instigated Deadly Prison Riot
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Inadequate medical care, poor food and overzealous guards was the catalyst for the deadly riot at a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi in May, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit, the Associated Press reports. Inmates in the privately-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez pledged to disobey orders until demands for…
Authorities: No Evidence Saints Eavesdropped on Opposing Teams
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A joint investigation between the FBI and state police found no evidence that the New Orleans Saints or General Manager Mickey Loomis intercepted opposing teams’ radio communications, authorities announced Monday, the Associated Press reports. “We found no corroborating evidence that Mickey Loomis or anybody in the Saints was engaged in wiretapping or…