By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Days after the tragic shooting in Arizona, hundreds of FBI agents are tracing the steps of shooter Jared Loughner, trying to figure out motive, a timeline leading up to the incident and who he had been in contact with, NPR radio reports. NPR reported that inside the bureau the investigation is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The once powerful U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been under FBI investigation in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal, but was never charged, was sentenced in state court Monday in Austin, Tex., to three years in prison for a scheme in which he illegally helped funnel corporate contributions…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Buffalo police are investigating a Monday morning home robbery that reportedly involved at least four men who were wearing FBI badges and jackets, radio station WBEN reported. A man was shot in the hand and his wife was pistol-whipped. The station reported that the man claimed he was stopped by four…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The bulldog-like mug of J. Edgar Hoover has long been synonymous with the FBI, a world-renowned law enforcement agency forever hyper-sensitive about its public image. Still, Hoover’s legend has taken its lumps over the years. Now comes the latest: an upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III hopped a plane to Arizona to deal with the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed a federal judge and seriously wounded a member of Congress. Sure, Mueller could have stayed back in Washington and gotten briefed regularly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mi.), a former FBI agent, criticized the decision by President Obama to dispatch FBI director Robert S. Mueller to Arizona after the mass shooting on Saturday, according to the radio station WHMI in Livingston County, Mi., outside Detroit. “He didn’t need to be in Arizona to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Frank Montoya, Jr., the section chief for the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters, who worked on the Oklahoma bombing and Robert Hanssen spy case, has been named head of the bureau’s Honolulu Division. Montoya joined the FBI in 1991 and was first stationed in the San Antonio Field Office,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An interesting thing happened on the way to the alter: An undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Hutaree militia in Michigan ended up signing the marriage certificate for the group’s leader using a bogus name, the website AnnArbor.com reported. The site reported, citing an FBI 302 report, that the undercover agent…
