By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from correcting a court filing that undercut the FBI’s conclusion that Army researcher Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax letter attacks in 2001, PBS Frontline, McClatchy and ProPublica reported in a joint story. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley of West Palm Beach,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As recently as 2009, the FBI was presenting materials about Islam to new recruits that former agent Mike German thought was a little shocking and might lead to abuse, according to the website Talking Points Memo. “Certainly I was concerned with the approach the FBI was taking post-9/11, which is why…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI can now automatically share information with local, state, regional and other law-enforcement agencies, the website InformationWeek reported. The publication reported that Raytheon said it finished — albeit late — its final phase of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) system, InformationWeek reported The system enables the FBI to distribute information…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge was none to happy to hear that the FBI intentionally failed for several hours to tell a man suspected of planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., why he had been arrested, the Associated Press reported. He was also not immediately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More controversy surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. The Los Angeles Times is reporting a discrepancy between what ATF and the FBI have said about the guns that were sold under the operation, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen or “straw purchasers”, with the hopes of tracing the…
