By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former chief of the Knoxville FBI office is suing the bureau and the Justice Department for $2.5 million, saying he was falsely accused of violating the law for accepting a position as the senior counterintelligence officer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Oak Ridge field…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A House committee wants the Obama administration to investigate Secret Service employees who circulated personnel information that showed the panel’s chairman was denied a job as an agent, The Washington Post reports. The committee that oversees the Secret Service discovered last week that unflattering information about Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is requiring agents to pass a fitness test for the first time in 16 years. “The lives of your colleagues and those you protect may well depend upon your ability to run, fight and shoot, no matter what job you hold,” James B. Comey, the FBI director, said in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol supervisor accused of hiding a video camera in the women’s bathroom at the agency’s station in San Diego pleaded not guilty Thursday. U-T San Diego reports that Armando Gonzalez, 46, pleaded not guilty to 19 counts related to the camera. Authorities said at least a dozen women were…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who stole heroin that was collected as evidence pleaded guilty Tuesday and warned of the powers of addiction. The Washington Post reports that Matthew Lowry, who worked in the Washington Field Office, apologized outside of the D.C. federal courthouse. “Today I informed the court of criminal acts…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent in Arizona is accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl while visiting his fiancé’s friend and her children, The Tucson News Now reports. Jeremy Tyler Cole, of Sierra Vista, was charged March 27 on one count of child molestation. Cole was arrested by Chandler Police on Friday. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for trying to derail a Utah investigation involving kickbacks from defense contractors. ABC News reports that Robert Lustyik Jr., 52, created a dossier of fake interviews with former FBI agents to make it appear as if he were…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The trial for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continued Monday as defense attorneys grilled FBI Special Agent Kevin Swindon about his knowledge of computers and the evidence. MassLive.com reports that attorney William Fick appeared to grow agitated as Swindon struggled to answer some of his questions. Swindon was unable to…
