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U.S. Atty Who Went After Edwards Wins Republican Nomination for Congress in N.C.
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com While once-presidential hopeful John Edwards stands trial in Greensborough N.C. for campaign finance violations, the U.S. Attorney who secured his indictment celebrated a different kind of victory 75 miles down the road in Raleigh Tuesday. George Holding won the Republican nomination for Congress in North Carolina this week, purportedly riding the coattails…
FBI Director Says Bomb Plot is Reason to Renew Electronic Surveillance Powers
By Jordy Yager The Hill WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI on Wednesday used a recently thwarted bomb plot to press Congress to extend the agency’s ability to spy on foreigners abroad without a warrant. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a panel of House lawmakers that some of the surveillance provisions, which are set…
Bryant to Head St. Louis FBI Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…
Suspected Killer Fills Last Vacancy on FBI’s Most Wanted List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a great deal of deliberation, the FBI has filled the final vacancy in its Ten Most Wanted fugitive list, the agency announced Wednesday, Adam Christopher Mayes, wanted in connection with the kidnapping last month of a mother, Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her three daughters in Tennessee, has been added…
Senate Passes Bill to Rename Border Station After Slain Agent Brian Terry
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now all that’s missing is the president’s signature. On Tuesday night, the Senate passed legislation that will allow authorities to rename the United States Border Patrol Station in Bisbee, AZ to honor the memory of slain border Agent Brian Terry. Terry was shot to death while on duty in December 2010….
Republican Lawmakers Want to Defund Program Requiring Rifle Reporting in Border States
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The combustable combination of politics and guns continues in the election year. The Republicans screamed about a failed ATF program — Fast and Furious — that let guns into Mexico. Now, the House Republicans, who claim President Obama is anti-gun, is trying to cut off funding for a program that requires…
Should Secret Service Agents Take Polygraphs After Being Hired?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Should Secret Service agents be polygraphed after they join the agency? Ronald Kessler of Newsmax seems to suggest that. He writes that agents must take a poloygraph test to get the job. But not after that. In contrast, he reports that FBI employees are polygraphed every five years, and counterintelligence agents,…
John Edward’s Aide Joked About Selling Sex Tape
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