By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By TARA McKELVEY New York Times In May 2004, the F.B.I. special agent James J. Smith found himself in an uncomfortable spot: he had to tell a federal judge about an affair he’d had with an informer, Katrina Leung, a San Marino, Calif., businesswoman with “jet-black hair,” while his wife and son were sitting in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended by the NBA in a gun incident in Washington in 2009, was not the most sought after player in the league. But now he feels more wanted — by the FBI that is. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is helping Atlanta and Los Angeles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI evidence technician in the agency’s Merrillville, Ind. office was sentenced Thursday in Hammond, Ind., to 15 months in prison for lying about stealing nearly $80,000 in evidence that she kept for herself instead of properly returning the cash as she claimed she did. Melissa L….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More often than not politicians have been the beneficiary of mysterious letters with white powder. This time it was the flip late night talk show host Craig Ferguson who got one of those letters. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is working with police to determine who sent a threatening…
Mobster sought FBI protection from state investigators: MyFoxBOSTON.com
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been more likely to be hunting for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, but much of the time found neither, according to newly disclosed internal information. Data from a recent two-year period showed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents moved into a local police station in Mountain View, Calif. in January of last year and reopened a 6-year-old cold case, reports Mountain View Patch. This week, three arrests were made in the case, a fatal drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old. “The FBI resources and technology were very valuable…
