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Minneapolis FBI Moves to the Burbs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Minnesota FBI, which also covers North and South Dakota, has moved. The Associated Press reports that the office has moved from downtown Minneapolis to a standalone facility in the suburb of Brooklyn Center, just northwest of the city. Features of the new facility include bulletproof glass and blast-proof walls.
FBI Appoints New Chief of Intelligence Division
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Eric Velez-Villar, deputy assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence Operations Branch at FBI Headquarters, is getting a bump up to assistant director of that division, the FBI announced this week. In testimony last month before the House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee on counterterrorism intelligence, Velez-Villar pledged the FBI’s cooperation with state…
Ex-Secret Service Agent Trashes Hillary Clinton in Book; Calls Her Aloof
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A tell-all book by an ex-Secret Service agent who worked the President Clinton detail is bound to ruffle some feathers inside the Beltway. The Examiner newspaper reports that ex-Secret Service agent Dan Emmett has written a self-published book “Within Arms’s Length” that “savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and…
LAPD and FBI Agent Killed Unarmed Suspect
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An investigation is underway in the fatal shooting of an unarmed double murder suspect, who was shot and killed last week by Los Angeles Police and an FBI agent, the Los Angeles Times reports. Initially, authorities said the man was armed. On Wednesday, the LAPD and FBI clarified the matter, the…
FBI Director Mueller Grilled on Release of Terrorist Cleric in 2002
By Catherine Herridge Fox News Several congressional committees want the FBI director to explain why one of his agents ordered the release of Anwar al-Awlaki from federal custody on Oct. 10, 2002, when there was an outstanding warrant for the American Muslim cleric’s arrest. “There are a number of committees interested in the facts of…
FBI Director Mueller Says Special Interrogation Group Used More Than a Dozen Times in Past 2 Years
By CNN WASHINGTON — A special group set up to interrogate captured terror suspects has been mobilized more than a dozen times in the past two years, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. “It’s been effective,” Mueller told a House appropriations subcommittee when asked about the use of the so-called High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, known…
Head of NJ FBI Not Happy With NYPD Spying on Muslims
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York Police Department’s spying on Muslims in New Jersey is not only ticking off Muslims. The FBI is none too happy. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that the NYPD activity, which as been written about in the media, is rubbing Michael Ward, head of the New Jersey FBI, the wrong…