By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com “Say it ain’t so, Rocket.” (“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Reported words of a young fan to Shoeless Joe Jackson after the Black Sox gambling scandal.) Roger Clemens may have lied under oath in front of a Congressional committee regarding the use of steroids during his baseball career, but so what?…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops! The publication WIRED reports that a student in California, the son of an Islamic-American community leader, found a GPS device on his car during an oil change and the FBI came knocking to get it back. The whole thing started last Sunday when Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old American born business…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now after 15 years on the lam, the U.S. Marshals Service has joined the hunt for 81-year-old mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, the Boston Globe reported. A U.S. deputy Marshal has been assigned full time to the FBI-led Bulger Task Force, which is comprised of State Police, FBI agents, and state Department…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is pushing to update laws to help agents keep up with the rapidly changing technology so they can effectively conduct surveillance of communications in anti-terrorism and other cases. At a conference of intelligence experts in Washington, Mueller said there have been instances in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John Perren, FBI special agent in charge of counterterrorism branch at Washington Field Office, has been named acting head of the office. In the meantime, James McJunkin, assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters is rumored to be a front runner to take over the top spot at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The director of “Die Hard” is off to live hard. A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced John McTiernan Monday to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine for lying to FBI agents over a wiretapping case in which he hired rogue detective Anthony Pellicano to wiretap film producer Charles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds are saying there’s no indication of any specific terrorist threat to the U.S. or its citizens as there is in Europe, the Associated Press reported. The FBI and Homeland Security Department in an intelligence bulletin said there is nothing out there to indicate there’s a planned attack…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has captured one man but is still looking for at least two others in the armored car robbery in South Florida on Friday in which a Brinks security guard was killed, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said Sunday that the FBI captured Nathaniel Moss, 31, on Friday, shortly after…
