By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com On the ever-popular Facebook, words of support, encouragement and disbelief plaster a wall with 2,700-plus followers dedicated to the elderly, ever-elusive San Diego bank robber dubbed the “Geezer Bandit”. “This is the first time I’ve heard of this guy,” wrote one Facebook fan. “And he just became my personal hero.” “Financial…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI could be getting more powers when it comes to getting data on Internet activity. Reporter Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the Obama administration wants to change a law so that it would allow the FBI to compel companies over individual’s records of their Internet activity without…
Mike Mason/fbi photo Michael Mason, a former assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, retired as the executive assistant director at FBI headquarters in 2007. His column is in response to the Justice Department investigation into whether potentially hundreds of FBI agents cheated on an open book test on a computer they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said Wednesday that his agents were assisting the Department of Defense in a controversial leak investigation into the ream of documents that were leaked on the Afghanistan war. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he also acknowledged a Justice Department probe into the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There appears to be more scandal in the air relating to allegations of FBI agents cheating on an open book test. The Associated Press is reporting that the Justice Department is investigating whether hundreds of FBI agents cheated on a test on the bureau’s policies about conducting surveillance and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ACLU offices around the country plan to file Freedom of Information Requests with the FBI to find out what type of information the agency is gathering on ethnic groups to battle terrorism, the Boston Globe reported. The request comes in the wake of the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide issued…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared New Jersey’s ex-acting U.S. Attorney and the former head of the Newark FBI of wrongdoing related to statements they made in 2009 at a press conference regarding a major public corruption indictment of more than 40 people, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired Philly FBI agent Gino L. Lazzari, who worked organized crime cases, and was beloved by colleagues and mobsters alike, died on Saturday at age 85 in a suburb of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Lazzari, who was an FBI agent for 25 years, went on after he retired to…
