By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Traditionally computers and emails have provided an endless treasure of info for agencies like the FBI, but new devices like smartphones and game consoles are posing challenges for the agencies. That’s what people attending the 2010 Computer Forensics Show last week in New York were told, according to the website Network…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Ward, the new head of the FBI’s Newarks office, is getting his feet wet, getting to know his agents, quickly learning what clearly will be a big priority, the Newark Star-Legder reports. “After my first couple of briefings, I think I can safely say that corruption is an issue in…
Gordon Snow/ fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Gordon M. Snow, a Detroit native, gets a bump up, going from deputy assistant director of the agency’s Cyber Division to assistant director of the division, which protects U.S. from cyber attacks and high tech crimes. “The FBI considers the cyber threat against our nation…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The killer anthrax case is not dead — at least in some circles. The New York Times reports that a former Army microbiologist Henry S. Heine told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that his colleague Bruce E. Ivins could not have produced the deadly anthrax spores,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News It appears the California “Geezer Bandit” isn’t about to retire from a life of crime anytime soon. The FBI says the prolific bandit on Tuesday knocked over his seventh bank since August — this time in Vista, a community in northern San Diego County. The FBI has described him…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sean Joyce, a Boston native, has been named executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch (NSB), a key post that oversees a number of divisions including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, Directorate of Intelligence and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. His last post was as assistant director of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Top Ten Fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger of Boston may be a cold and calculated killer, but apparently he does like literature. The Boston Globe reports authorities last week circulated posters of Bulger, 80, and his girlfriend Catherine Greig, 59, at bookstores around the ocean front city of Victoria in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court of taking a series of bribes from immigrants seeking documentation to remain in the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 39, of Alta Loma, Calif. was…
