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 Mark F. Giuliano, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters, has been named the agency’s executive assistant director of the National Security Branch, the FBI announced Monday. “I am confident that under Mark’s leadership in managing international and domestic counterterrorism investigations, NSB will continue its strategic…
By Ronald Kessler Newsmax For FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the biggest threat to the bureau was a movement to do away with the FBI’s counterterrorism effort and replace it with a new terror-fighting agency similar to the British MI5. Such an agency would have investigative powers but none of the FBI’s law enforcement…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Thomas R. Stutler, a newly minted author, says he likes fiction readers to get a sense authors know what they’re talking about. “My goal when writing fiction is always to make sure the reader can tell the book was written by somebody who was in the game… Every sentence,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brenda L. Heck, deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division. Prior to entering the FBI, she was a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 1985-88. In 1988, Heck joined…
Erroll G. Southers is the Associate Director of the DHS National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and adjunct professor of homeland security and public policy at the University of Southern California. He is also the Managing Director of Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection for the San Jose-based international security consulting firm…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speech. Problem is, federal authorities say, he’s a fraud. On Tuesday,…
