By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s campaign to integrate its predominately white ranks has failed to bring more African Americans on board. In fact, a smaller share of the FBI’s ranks are African American than a decade ago, when black agents made up 6.5% of the ranks. Today, only 4.4% of the bureau’s 13,500 agents…
The number of minority FBI agents continues to decline, but bureau Director James Comey pledged to reverse that trend.
A grand jury on Monday decided not to indict two police officers who fatally shot Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was playing with a pellet gun.
By Simone Weichselbaum The Marshall Project Richard Garcia, the FBI assistant director in charge of the bureau’s Los Angeles office, was unfazed to learn in 2005 that the agency had agreed to cooperate in the making of a Hollywood film based on his work managing a rogue agent who was suspected of being a Russian…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Being the first is always worth noting. And that’s what Charles L. Gittens was — the first black Secret Service agent. He became an agent in 1956 and retired in 1979, the Associated Press reported. AP reported reported that Gittens died on July 27 in Maryland. He was 82. According to…
Editors Note: The jury in the Bond’s case begins its fourth day of deliberations on Wednesday. He faces charges of making false statements to a grand jury about steroid use and obstruction of justice. By WILLIAM C. RHODEN The New York Times The trial of Barry Bonds has always been more than a simple case…
I imagine some white supremacists are proud that 88-year-old James W. von Brunn shot and killed a black man at a Jewish museum. But are they still proud of him now that the FBI has found child pornography on his computer? By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The 88-year-old white supremacist…
