By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting takes a sharp shot at the FBI for failing to share critical information with military about shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Associated Press reported. AP wrote that the report — to be released Thursday — also criticized the Pentagon for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A WikiLeaks cable suggests that missing ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in 2007 while working as a private investigator in the Persian Gulf, was being held — at least at one point — in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s prison, according to a report in the The Telegraph in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI officials are warning major Wall Street banks that al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen may be plotting to attack their institutions or top executives, NBCNewYork reported. The TV station reported that intelligence officials stressed that the threats were general in nature and there was “no indication of a targeted assassination plot”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former head of the Miami FBI has been hired by the city to evaluate its police department on issues including morale, policy and emails written by the police chief, the Miami Herald reported. Paul Philip, 63, who led the FBI office in the 1990s, has agreed to work 20 hours…
By Ken Dilanian Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The FBI disclosed to a presidential board that it was involved in nearly 800 violations of laws, regulations or policies governing national security investigations from 2001 to 2008, but the government won’t provide details or say whether anyone was disciplined, according to a report by a privacy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. As serial bank robbers have done over the the many decades, the man dubbed the “Geezer Bandit” continues to frustrate the FBI and local authorities. On Friday, the “Geezer Bandit” held up his 13th bank in southern California, this time on Friday at a Bank of America branch in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Chicago has dealt with some pretty heady issues in the past few years, from international terrorism to the high-profile indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Now comes the case of the missing puck. The FBI’s forensics experts in Chicago have been helping to try and locate the puck…
