By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Warren T. Bamford, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed Of The Year for 2009. The award to Bamford comes as a result of the high marks he earned from colleagues around the country, who say he’s a stand-up person and a first-rate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A movement is afoot to boost Mississippi’s image. Some politicians are pushing to name the FBI building in Jackson, Miss., after three slain civil rights workers, who were killed in 1964 during an intense voter registration drive, USA Today reported. The Jackson City Council is supposed to vote on a resolution…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — You can already hear the tabloids salivating over the anticipated release of FBI files on legendary singer Michael Jackson. The Daily Mail in London was among many media outlets to report that the FBI plans to declassify and release more than 300 documents on Jackson within the next two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The number of crimes involving violence, property and arson dropped in the first half of 2009 compared to the same time last year, according to the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released Monday. The FBI said it was the third year in a row crime had declined during…
In Washington, rivalries between federal law enforcement agencies aren’t all that unusual. This certainly won’t help. By PETER BAKER New York Times WASHINGTON — A former director of the Secret Service said Friday that the F.B.I. had engaged in an “abuse of power” by trying to pressure him to “give us the president” during the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds are taking the upcoming 9/11 trial quite seriously. Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in New York, said the agency will be forming a squad to assist the prosecutors in preparing the case against alleged mastermind of the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others. The squad, he…
FBI Agent Shot A Chihuahua Just Like This One/istock photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Texas FBI agent who shot and killed his neighbor’s 3 pound Chihuahua named “Sassy” with a pellet rifle in the Waco, Tex. area in 2008, is no longer with the FBI. Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Henry Hill, the real life mobster turned FBI snitch who inspired the movie “Goodfellas”, is in trouble again. Fairview Heights, Ill. Police arrested Hill, 66, on Sunday at a hotel for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, the Associated Press reported. The paper reports Hill was in the area for a showing…
