By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia appears to be moving in a logical direction. Two Secret Service agents have resigned and a third is retiring, Bloomberg news reported. The men were reportedly part of the advance team for the president. News agencies have reported that the Secret Service wants…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s good to be a Secret Service agent. Just ask ex-agent Dan Emmett, who writes in his book “Within Arm’s Reach” that attractive” women were so “intoxicated” by the “celebrity-like status” of the presidential security detail, the Examiner newspaper writes. He writes in his book that it was “paradise” for single…
By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post WASHINGTON — In text message after text message, FBI agents and their key informant joked about sex, booty calls, prostitutes, cigars, the Village People, the informant’s wives and an agent’s girlfriend. They even pondered who might play their roles in a movie based on their sting. When arrests were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Reports that the FBI is sending an army of armed agents to the 2012 Olympics just ain’t true, at least according to the a Brit official. The website News24 reported that Chris Allison, the national security co-ordinator for the games, “sharply rejected reports that armed FBI agents would be taking part…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service got a little visit Wednesday from one of its protectees — First lady Michelle Obama. Politico reports that she checked out the intricate works that goes into protecting her family. She called the daily task of agents “pretty scary.” “All I can say is, after my little tour,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Congressional committee in Washington on Thursday morning that the FBI’s commitment on intelligence gathering and counterterrorism can be found in the numbers. Appearing before the House Permanent Select Committee Intelligence, Mueller noted that since 9/11 the agency has more than doubled the number…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More bad publicity for the Transportation Security Administration. Three of its agents, along with a police officer and a state trooper were among 20 people arrested in connection with an interstate prescription drug ring that shipped oxycodone to New York and Connecticut from Florida and relayed the profits back to Florida,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has assigned two agents to work full time in the New Orleans Police Department’s internal affairs unit, another move in a concerted effort to unearth corruption in the troubled department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time,” said David Welker, special…
