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New FBI HQ in Tucson Opens
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com About 180 federal employees have begun moving into the FBI’s new Tucson-area headquarters, which officially opened on the first of this month, reports Inside Tucson Business. The building, 92,000 square feet, consolidates three scattered locations in the area. The building is owned and operated by the Kansas-based Quality Group of Companies…
DEA Extends Ban on “Fake Pot” Products
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is continuing to go after “fake pot.” The agency announced earlier this week on its website that it was extending by six months a ban on five chemicals used to make fake pot, which have been sold at retail outlets and head shops. The ban, under the DEA’s emergency…
FBI’s Keith Slotter to Retire as Head of San Diego Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Keith Slotter, who has headed the FBI’s San Diego office since 2007, and who once headed the Sacramento office, is retiring at the end of March to join the private sector. Slotter, who was an accountant before joining the FBI, has been with the bureau for the past 25 years. He…
Detroit Fed Task Force to Go After Public Corruption
Task Force to Uncover and Prosecute Public Corruption in Metro Detroit: MyFoxDETROIT.com
Chief Fed Judge Circulates Racist Joke About President Obama
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to imagine the chief federal judge in any district being so ignorant as to taint the bench and raise serious questions about the ability to be objective. Well, meet Chief Judge Richard Cebull, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench in Montana. Apparently he admitted…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Continues to Bang the Drum About the Dangers of Terrorists and the Cyber World
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s was nothing particularly shocking — or for that matter new — in FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III’s speech Thursday, but it was another reminder of the havoc and mischief we can expect via cyber attacks against business and government in the future. Terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority,” Mueller…
FBI’s John Perren Named AD for Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Perren, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Division at headquarters, is moving up. He’s been named to the post, Assistant Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. Perren, a former D.C. cop who joined the FBI in 1987, will replace Dr. Vahid Majidi, who plans to retire in May….