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Over the Top: Ohio Woman Solicited FBI Undercover Agent to Kill a Fur Lover
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Here’s an animal rights policy even PETA wouldn’t back: a Cleveland Heights woman is being charged with soliciting a hit man to randomly kill someone wearing a fur product, reports FOX Cleveland. Meredith Marie Lowell, 27, was arrested shortly after the charges were announced on Tuesday, Special Agent with the FBI…
Mueller to Deliver Speech on Cyber Attacks at Calif. Conference
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who has been sounding the alarms about the dangers of cyber attacks, will be the keynote speaker on March 1 at the RSA Conference, which is billed as the world’s leading information security conference. Mueller will deliver a speech entitled “Combating Threats in the Cyber…
Colo. Fed Prosecutor Bob Mydans, 64, Dies While Snowshoeing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal prosecutor in Colorado died Saturday while snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Denver Post reported. Bob Mydans, 64, collapsed shortly after 3 p.m. and couldn’t be revived, the paper reported. “Bob was a rock, a true mainstay of this office, and never hesitated to take on difficult…
FBI Releases Files on 2002 Winter Olympics; Someone Raised Red Flag About $103,597 Overseas Phone Bill
By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Twenty-four days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the FBI’s counterterrorism unit sent a memo to its agents in Utah. The FBI had received a tip from an employee at a cell service provider that a customer had racked up a $103,597 phone bill by…
ICE Agent Who Shot Supervisor Struggled for Gun With Colleague
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ICE agent Ezequiel Garcia, who shot his supervisor last week in Long Beach, Calif., struggled for his gun with another ICE agent who shot him, the Associated Press reported. “There was a very, very intense struggle,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said, according to AP. “They were physically struggling over the gun.”…
Ex-FBI Chief Spokesman John Miller Has Returned to TV
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you didn’t notice, John Miller, who headed the FBI’s public affairs office, and then moved on in 2009 to become assistant deputy director of intelligence analysis for the Office of Director of National Intelligence, has returned to TV. The New York Post recently reported that Miller showed up on…
FBI Ditches “Anti-Muslim” Materials
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has tossed out more than 700 documents and 3o0 presentations related to Islam following complaints that the bureau was using training materials that were factually inaccurate or wrongly stereotyping the religion, reports the Detroit Free Press. The FBI plans to go public with new rules on how to vet…
Sheriff Charged with Civil Rights Violations and Lying to FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A County Sheriff in Kentucky and his four deputies found themselves on the wrong end of a 10-count indictment, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The indictment charges that the defendants–Barren County Sheriff Christopher Easton and deputies Danny McGown, Aaron Bennett, Adam Minor, and Eric Guffey–violated a victim’s civil rights by using unreasonable force…