By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a 64-year-old man on Tuesday morning at his home outside Yakima, Wash., for allegedly threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in response to the health care vote, the FBI said. Authorities charged in a criminal complaint that Charles Alan Wilson of Selah, Wash., made a series of threatening…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial started Monday in EL PASO for an FBI agent charged with illegally selling about 50 guns for more than $118,000 without a license, the El Paso Times reported. FBI Agent John Thomas Shipley, 40, faces six counts of selling firearms without a license from 2005 to 2008. The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Gerald Fold authorized the FBI to use domestic warrantless wiretaps in 1974, according to the website WIRED. The website, which cites a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting, says Ford signed a Dec. 19, 1974 memo giving his approval “just one month before the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Robert K. Wittman claims in his upcoming book that his efforts to reclaim stolen art from the biggest art heist in U.S. history was undermine by a supervisor, the Boston Globe reports. The Globe reports that Wittman makes his claim in his yet to be released book: “Priceless:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is looking into death threats against ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who had previously been the target of a man who had videotaped her naked through hotel peep holes, the LA Times reported. Andrews’ attorney, Marshall Grossman said a media outlet had received emails that included death threats, the paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating letters sent by an anti-government group to more than 30 governors warning them to step down within three days or they’ll be removed. The Associated Press reported that the FBI is warning local cops that the group’s action could provoke violence. The group,the Guardians of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the more improbable theories about Teamster James R. Hoffa — that he’s buried under the west end zone at Giant Stadium — is popping up one more time for old time sake as demolition teams get ready to knock down the stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Rumors of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI is trying to jump start a probe into the 1980s killing of as many as eight people in southeastern Virginia known as the Colonial Parkway murders, the Washington Post reports. The Washington Post’s Maria Glod reports that the FBI is re-examining dozens of pieces of evidence, including…
