By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI may be the bigger of the two agencies, but that didn’t stop the Secret Service from defeating the bureau in annual hockey game in Arlington, Va. CNN reported that Secret Service defeated the FBI 7-6 in overtime at the Kettler Capital Iceplex. The FBI won last year….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A team of investigators has cleared an FBI agent of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a veteran last May 19 at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. In a press release, the FBI stated that the agent, whose name was not released “operated within the scope of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A slice of history in Washington that included FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is gone. The Friendship Barbershop at Wisconsin Avenue NW and Newark Street, where Mueller got his haircuts — shut down Feb. 26 to make room for a redevelopment project, according to WTOP radio. Not to…
UPDATE: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton issued this statement on Thursday:”As we approach the fourth anniversary of Bob Levinson’s disappearance, we have received recent indications that Bob is being held somewhere in southwest Asia. As the Government of Iran has previously offered its assistance in this matter, we respectfully request the Iranian government to undertake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mob reporter Jerry Capeci of the website Gang Land News writes in a story posted Thursday: “Did the Justice Department just orchestrate a bait-and-switch scam on a gullible, eager-to-believe citizenry? Six weeks after the feds loudly proclaimed that they are still pursuing mobsters with a vengeance, the FBI has quietly cut…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Egyptian-American college student in California filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday, saying the agency violated his civil rights when it secretly placed a GPS tracking device on his car, the Associated Press reported. Yasir Afifi, a student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., who insists the…
