Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Neither drugs nor alcohol appeared to play a role in the car accident that seriously injured former FBI Director Louis Freeh, the Burlington Free Press reports. Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., remains in serious condition at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. where he’s being protected by armed guards. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Louis Freeh, who served as FBI director from 1993 to June 2001, was seriously injured Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle car crash in Vermont, CNN reported. CNN, citing a U.S. law enforcement official, said Freeh was undergoing surgery for unspecified injuries. CNN reported that the Vermont State Police said that Freeh…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Wednesday marked the start of a new era for the FBI. After 12 years at the helm, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III was replaced by James B Comey. As noted on the FBI website, Attorney General Eric Holder administered the oath of office at 4:32 p.m., making Comey the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s head of the Denver field division has been named the new director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Denver Post reports. The Navy announced Andrew Traver’s new position Friday. “It is an awesome privilege to be chosen to lead a top-tier, elite agency in NCIS, and I intend to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say, it wasn’t easy getting there. But after all the political wrangling, B. Todd Jones was sworn in as the new director ATF at a ceremony Thursday at the White House. With his confirmation, Jones, who was the acting director, becomes the agency’s first permanent director in seven years….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise here. The Senate, by a vote of 93 to 1 gave the nod Monday to make James Comey the next FBI director. He’ll replace Robert S. Mueller III, who headed the agency for a dozen years, according to the Washington Post. Comey, 52, was a senior Justice Department official…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the end, President Obama opted for a white guy — and a lawyer at that — to head the FBI. It appears America is not quite ready for a woman, or a black person for that matter, to head what the White House and some others clearly see as the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There have been plenty names bandied about to replace FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III later this year including Lisa Monaco, a career federal prosecutor, ex-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Jim Comey, the former U.S. attorney in Manhattan But one name some think should be in the mix is Jana Monroe,…
