By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not everyone is buying into the FBI’s findings that scientist Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer — including his supervisor. The Frederick News Post in Frederick, Md., where Ivins worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, reports that Ivins’ supervisor Jeffrey Adamovicz wasn’t impressed with the FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –Could it be ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of sex-text message fame, who has already served time for obstruction of justice in state court, could face far more serious charges in federal court? The Detroit Free Press reports that “a contractor who pleaded guilty in an ongoing corruption probe in Detroit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael Morehart, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of the Security Division at headquarters, is moving down the road to take over as special agent in charge of the Richmond division. Morehart started as an agent in October 1986, and was first assigned to the Columbia, S.C., bureau before going…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some times making a little extra doe on Craigslist isn’t so wise. Retired Border Patrol agent David Pietrantonio has been charged in San Diego with selling official equipment to undercover FBI agents, the Associated Press reported. He had pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. AP reports that Pietrantonio tried to sell “a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Trouble is a constant companion of Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who is now a city council member. Now the latest. An independent report conducted by attorney William Bennett on behalf of the D.C. City Council has accused Barry of public corruption. The report says Barry secured a $15,000 contract…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells the Detroit News that he thinks agents acted appropriately when they fatally shot an imam 20 times during an October raid in Dearborn, Mi, after the imam shot and killed an FBI dog. “Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Allan Kornblum, 71, a Florida federal magistrate, an ex-FBI agent who worked on civil rights cases in the 1960s, and a Justice Department official credited with writing key passages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), died last week of cancer in Gainesville, Fla., the Washington Post reported. Kornblum,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After all the unnecessary political grandstanding, the administration is doing what it probably would have done anyways in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing incident. The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, one of Washington’s premier reporters, writes that the Justice Department and FBI will “consult with the intelligence community…
