By Glynnesha Taylor and Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI badge was inside a parked car one moment and gone the next. News of the missing badge first turned up in a blurb on Thursday in a weekly section of the Washington Post that lists crimes in Fairfax County, a suburb of Washington. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent shot and killed an Army veteran Wednesday night after he allegedly came at the agent with a knife at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., authorities said, according to a press conference aired on Tampa television. Authorities said that the veteran was a guest at the base’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Smack in the middle of the heartland, in an area better known for its steak and barbecue than its links to al Qaeda, comes a little bit of news. Khalid Ouazzani, 32, a used car and parts dealer from Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing material support to al…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) on Tuesday renewed his call for the Obama administration to support his legislation that would make the top post at the Transportation Security Administration a 10-year term. In a letter to the president, posted on his website, he applauded Monday’s presidential nomination of deputy FBI…
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…
