Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details continue to roll in about the kidnapping-murder-suicide of Adam Mayes, who had just been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Mayes in April had abducted a mother and her three daughters. The mother, Jo Ann Bain and the eldest daughter were found dead. The FBI says that the two…
Henry Crumpton served as U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism from 2005 to 2007. By AMB. HENRY A. CRUMPTON Politico Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI, the world’s leading law enforcement agency, has labored to transform itself into an intelligence organization — while preserving its policing pre-eminence. This challenge has proved difficult. There are major…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mess from the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens isn’t over yet. The website Main Justice reports that the Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the lead FBI agent in the case, Mary Beth Kepner. New of the probe surfaced when FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified…
By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com That was quick. One day after the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List, accused kidnapper and murderer Adam Mayes was found dead Thursday in Union County Miss., CNN reported. He reportedly shot and killed himself. Mayes was accused of kidnapping a Tennessee mother and her three daughters. The mother…
By Jordy Yager The Hill WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI on Wednesday used a recently thwarted bomb plot to press Congress to extend the agency’s ability to spy on foreigners abroad without a warrant. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a panel of House lawmakers that some of the surveillance provisions, which are set…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a great deal of deliberation, the FBI has filled the final vacancy in its Ten Most Wanted fugitive list, the agency announced Wednesday, Adam Christopher Mayes, wanted in connection with the kidnapping last month of a mother, Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her three daughters in Tennessee, has been added…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Should Secret Service agents be polygraphed after they join the agency? Ronald Kessler of Newsmax seems to suggest that. He writes that agents must take a poloygraph test to get the job. But not after that. In contrast, he reports that FBI employees are polygraphed every five years, and counterintelligence agents,…
