By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI first took interest in the late Sen. Paul Wellstone when he was arrested during an anti-Vietnam war protest in 1970, and years later investigated death threats against him as a liberal Democratic senator, according to Minnesota Public Radio, which obtained FBI files under a Freedom of Information request. MPR…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Justice Department’s Inspector General report released Wednesday sharply criticized the FBI for its handling of a yet to be completed case management system that will convert the agency’s criminal records from paper to computers, saying it is still fraught with problems including cost overruns. The report also expressed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 57-year-old Michigan man has been hit with a three year prison term for impersonating an FBI agent, the Daily Tribune reported. The paper reported that U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in Detroit sentenced Kevin Balfour of Warren, Mi, a Detroit suburb, earlier this month. The paper reported the man impersonated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Jordanian national caught in an FBI sting in which he plotted to blow up a Dallas skyscraper in September 2009, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years in prison. Authorities charged that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi drove a truck containing a fake bomb provided by the FBI to the Fountain Place,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Forty eight law enforcement officers in 2009 were either shot and killed or hit by cars that were used as weapons, up by seven from the previous year, the FBI said Monday. Additionally, 47 died in accidents while on the job. One of those slain in 2009 was U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Life after the FBI comes in many forms. James Wagner,67, former head of the Chicago Crime Commission and a 31-year veteran of the FBI, is expected to be named to the newly created post of inspector general of the Illinois Tollway on Monday, the Chicago Tribune reported. In January, Wagner was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama is a busy guy with a lot of worries. So he might be excused when he commits a little Washington faux pas as he did during a town hall meeting last week with young people. While discussing “federal drug enforcement”, he mentioned the Justice Department and FBI,…
