By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The good news is that the FBI “has taken appropriate steps to prepare to respond to a potential” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack, according to a just released Justice Department’s Inspector General report. Now the bad news: “We concluded that the Department of Justice as a whole and…
Read Story on CNN that Includes Info on Whistleblower and ATF Official Edgar Domenech
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is investigating the theft of nearly two dozen weapons from the shooting range of a suburban Chicago police department, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. The weapons stolen from the Harvey Police Department included handguns and MP5 and AR-15 assault weapons, the Trib reported. They were reported stolen from a trailer…
By Jeff Stein SpyTalk WASHINGTON — Poor ATF: It don’t get no respect. NYPD’s Ray Kelly, Attorney General Holder and DHS honcho Janet Napolitano all heaped praise on themselves and each other for their fabulous work in the Times Square bomb case. But the ATF? Nada. Out of sight, out of mind, evidently, overlooked like…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-ATF agent from Tulsa, Ok., pleaded guilty Thursday to drug trafficking. He also admitted conspiring to fabricate a drug buy in 2007 that wrongfully sent a father and daughter to federal prison. Ex-ATF agent Brandon J. McFadden, 34, who left the agency last year, pleaded guilty to distributing more than…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — James Cavanaugh, who recently retired as a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives official after 33 years, Monday shared his insights into the Times Square car bomb with AOL News. Cavanaugh said he thought the culprit or culprits likely had international ties. He also said he…
