By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Are rapes recorded accurately? Apparently not, which is why the the FBI is in the process of changing the definition of rape for the first time in 80 years, reports the Baltimore Sun. The Sun reports that critics have insisted the definition is too narrow, resulting in fewer stats and less…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The rumor mill has been working overtime involving the controversy between FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that the FBI didn’t tell him about its investigation into inmate abuse, or the fact that the FBI, in an undercover sting, paid a sheriff’s deputy about…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com NPR has some new coverage of the anti-Muslim bias in FBI training. The radio station has obtained real-time emails from agents in the controversial Quantico training session which indicate that some agents, distressed by what they were being taught, complained to superiors and sought council from experts. “Generally, Mohammed was portrayed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent, who rose through the ranks to become a deputy assistant director, is on trial in federal court in Washington in what Bloomberg news reports is the first prosecution of a foreign bribery based on a government sting run inside the U.S. Ex-agent R. Patrick Caldwell is…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The rumor mill has been working over time involving the controversy between FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that the FBI didn’t tell him about its investigation into inmate abuse, or the fact that the FBI, in an undercover sting, paid a sheriff’s deputy about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not be so easy to get off the terrorist watch list, the New York Times has found. The paper reported that the FBI is allowed to include people on the list who have been acquitted of terrorism related crimes or the crimes have been dismissed. The discovery comes after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Expect more craziness in coming days and weeks in the scandal brewing in Los Angeles where the FBI paid a sheriff’s deputy a bribe to sneak a phone into the county jail for an inmate in what turned out to be a sting. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that he was…
