Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired ATF agent who infiltrated the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang is suing the federal agency for $10 million for failing to protect him, News 4 Tucson reports. Jay Dobyns, an ATF agent for 27 years, was investigating Hell’s Angels between 2001 and 2003 as an undercover agent. As a result, Dobyns…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A rare permit to kill an endangered black rhino has incensed wildlife advocates to the point that a hunting club is getting death threats, the Associated Press reports. Now the FBI finds itself trying to hunt down the anti-hunters. “The FBI is aware of the threats,” FBI spokeswoman Katherine Chaumont said. “If…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 37-year-old Washington state man accused of sending a ricin-laden letter and death threat to a federal judge also is suspected of recently sending the poison to President Obama, the Associated Press reports. Matthew Ryan Buquet, who is being held without bond in a Spokane jail, has pleaded not guilty to sending…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI files released Monday on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy show that Joseph P. Kennedy, the senator’s father, felt close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to check on a rumor regarding his son. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke…
white house photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into two death threats against President Obama that surfaced on Twitter regarding the historic health care vote in the House, according to the Daily Telegraph of Australia. “We are aware of the comments and are taking the appropriate investigative action,”…
