By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brenda L. Heck, deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division. Prior to entering the FBI, she was a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 1985-88. In 1988, Heck joined…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorneys for ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich want prosecutors to turn over FBI interview summaries of President Obama. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the attorneys asked for the documents known as FBI 302 reports so they can use the information to cross examine a government witness….
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page There was an uproar when it was revealed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, was read his Miranda rights. The hysterical reaction obscured a real dilemma for law enforcement: how to obtain what could be vital information about terrorist plots without denying suspects their legal…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former FBI agent bragged that while working for the agency in the 1990s “he routinely arrested Bahamian criminal defendants in South Florida and unlawfully sent them back to their homeland on commercial airline flights without any formal review of their cases in U.S. courts,” the Miami Herald reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The endless political bickering over the budget could spell trouble for the FBI. ABC News’ Jason Ryan reports that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Senate committee Wednesday that the government’s current budget crisis could result in the FBI being unable to fill as many as 1,100…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Some people hold a grudge a long long time. That would apparently include Kim Rolene Hutterer, 47, who was charged this week in Minneapolis with threatening to kill and “slowly cut skin off” FBI agent Dean Scheidler who arrested her 20 years ago for threatening to bomb a plane in 1991,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The deadly drama at the Mexican border continues to play out in so many different way. The latest: The Associated Press reports that the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department on Monday said that a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a Mexican man three times in the back as he tried climbing a…
