By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Timothy Murphy, the FBI’s number three person, seems to be a name circulating in the agency’s rumor mill as a strong prospect to replace deputy director John Pistole, the number two man at the FBI, sources say. The rumor mill kicked into gear on Tuesday, one day after President…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The three Pakistani men rounded up last week as part of the ongoing probe into the New York car bomb incident don’t appear to have links to terrorism, the Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. told the Boston Globe. Ambassador Husain Haqqani of Washington, whose statement was based on briefings…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — While I was a reporter at the Detroit News covering the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit, FBI agent Herman Groman left his mark. When the FBI ran a massive sting that netted a number of crooked local judges, Herman Groman was in thick of all of that. A few…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A retired FBI agent well versed in interrogating spies and terrorists, says he wants FBI Director Robert Mueller III to speak up and defend the reading of Miranda Warnings to suspects, the website Spy Talk reported. Retired agent Joe Navarro said the Miranda Warning — giving suspects the right…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has had talks about moving its aging headquarters to Maryland, but the tanking economy may have put any plans on hold, the Washington Post reported Sunday. A lawsuit filed by Greenbelt Ventures against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, says Metroland Developers was “secretly meeting with WMATA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise that the FBI kept files on Walter Cronkite, one of America’s most influential newsmen. Yahoo! News reported that it obtained FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act that show “Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com About 500 federal, state and local police on Thursday converged on the town of Newburgh, about 50 miles north of New York City, to round up gang members of the Bloods and the Latin Kings, who authorities say have been responsible for a good chunk of crime and drug trafficking in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The failed Times Square car bomb incident has led the FBI to the Northeast sector of the country where agents have executed search warrants, CNN reported, saying cash couriers seemed to be the target. The raids took place in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. By afternoon the Justice Department had…
