By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Is New York Times best selling author Ronald Kessler a little paranoid or just a little more important in the eyes of the FBI than the average Joe? Kessler, author of “The Secrets of the FBI”, tells Politico there’s “about a hundred percent chance that both his house and car are bugged.”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Leonardo DiCaprio and director Clinton Eastwood for J. Edgar seem to be very circumspect when discussing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s sexuality and their film on Hoover that is set to be released in November. The film is called “J. Edgar.” USA Today reports that in an interview in GQ magazine…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has assigned two agents to work full time in the New Orleans Police Department’s internal affairs unit, another move in a concerted effort to unearth corruption in the troubled department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time,” said David Welker, special…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The feds in Miami are taking aim at some big guys in the drug world. Authorities filed charges against Daniel Barrera-Barrera, an international drug smuggler with alleged ties to terrorist groups in Columbia, reports the Miami Herald. The report calls Barrera-Barrera, 42, one of Columbia’s most-wanted, and says he “maintains a partnership with…
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 Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI efforts to strengthen the bonds with the Islamic American community haven’t always gone smoothly. The latest of example of that came Saturday in Seattle when the the FBI, Seattle Police and U.S. Attorney’s Office participated in an outreach workshop Saturday with Seattle’s…
By Scott Shane New York Times WASHINGTON — In a new memoir, a former F.B.I. agent who tracked Al Qaeda before and after the Sept. 11 attacks paints a devastating picture of rivalry and dysfunction inside the government’s counterterrorism agencies. The book describes missed opportunities to defuse the 2001 plot, and argues that other attacks…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I still remember walking down Connecticut Avenue in Washington, headed to the subway, when I ran into a friend who told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. About 20 minutes later, when I got off the subway downtown at the Farragut North stop, I bumped into…
