By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent turned author Bob Hammer explains why he turned to writing. “In the original Rocky movie Rocky tells Adrian he boxes because he can’t sing or dance. I can identify,” Hammer wrote in a column posted on the website Big Hollywood. “After twenty-six years as an FBI agent, I now…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The wife of Robert Levinson, the ex-FBI agent who went missing from an Iranian island in 2007, posted a letter “To my dear husband Bob” on the Internet on Friday to commemorate their 37th wedding anniversary. The letter from wife Christina noted how painful the whole ordeal has been. The U.S….
By The New York Times Editorial Page The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than George W….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald quickly became a household name. For the most part, many to this day, have never heard of former FBI agent James P. Hosty. But there was a well-known link between the two. Hosty, who died of prostate cancer on June 10 at age 86…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s being described as a wish list for terrorists. ABC reports that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have sent a bulletin to law enforcement agencies alerting them of a terrorist “hit list” posted on a jihadi web site that names 40 prominent figures from government, the U.S. military…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Emailing may be hazardous to your freedom Brian Stacy of Los Alamos, N.M. was arrested Wednesday for allegedly sending emails threatening to murder U.S. District Judge John E. Conway in Albuquerque, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Authorities said Stacy has prior arrests for possession of an unregistered firearm and numerous probation…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hard-charging late Tim Russert, who hosted NBC’s “Meet the Press” for more than 16 years, may have been beloved, but apparently not be everybody. The Hill newspaper reports that FBI files show that someone left a threatening voicemail for Russert at the tv station on March 7, 2001 at about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suburban Pittsburgh family says sorry, sorry ain’t enough. The family said it’s suing the FBI for more than $50,000 in damages after agents and police officers in March mistakenly entered their Bellevue, Pa., home, guns drawn, looking for a suspect who moved out two years before and was not related…
