By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The good news is that the FBI “has taken appropriate steps to prepare to respond to a potential” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack, according to a just released Justice Department’s Inspector General report. Now the bad news: “We concluded that the Department of Justice as a whole and…
By The New York Times Editorial These days it is hard enough to find a job. Far too many Americans miss a chance to get hired because the F.B.I. background checks employers commonly use to screen applicants have incomplete or inaccurate information. A bill introduced by Representative Bobby Scott, a Democrat of Virginia, would fix…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suddenly dentistry — a world of crowns and implants and root canals — has never been so exciting. The FBI is asking the dental community across the country to help capture James “Whitey Bulger”, a violent Boston mobster, who ranks among the FBI’s Top 10 fugitive alongside notables like Osama bin…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which has been soliciting videos in search of the next big star, got one that prompted the program’s security to contact the FBI, law enforcement sources said. The video was of a man who had a Mac 10 machine gun in tow and was making…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The late Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina was a broadcast executive before becoming a senator and “offered the facilities of his station to assist the FBI at any time,” according to a 1971 FBI memo, the Raleigh News Observer reported. “He is a great admirer of the Director [J. Edgar…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Warren Bamford, a well-respected figure in the FBI who heads the Boston office, will retire next month after 24 years with the agency to take a job with a private utility, the Boston Globe reported. Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Boston FBI, told the Globe Bamford’s last day will be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent Cornelius “Neil” Sullivan, who was the section chief of the intelligence division and was credited with fostering improved relations with the CIA, died earlier this month in Silver Spring, Md. at age 84, the Washington Post reported. Sullivan joined the FBI in 1951 and served in…
