By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Life is just more painful when you mess up and you have a high profile job. Ask Lori Bailey. The ex-FBI agent, who was the face of the FBI down in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (she was the media spokeswoman), was the subject of Texas media reports this week after she…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Richard A. McFeely, who has a law degree and was the FBI’s deputy assistant director of the Finance Division, has been named special agent in charge of the bureau’s Baltimore Division. McFeely replaces Amy Jo Lyons, who was recently named assistant director of the Inspection Division at FBI headquarters….
The FBI and other agencies are learning that trying to remove al Qaeda in one or two countries won’t destroy the movement. It’s one thing to kill people, it’s another to kill a movement. By Kevin Johnson USA Today WASHINGTON — In the eight years since the 9/11 attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller has spent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John V. Gillies, who headed the FBI’s St. Louis office, has been named special agent in charge of the Miami division, the FBI announced Friday. He replaces Jonathan I. Solomon, who retired. Gillies, a Chicago native, started his FBI career in 1983 as a financial analyst. Two years later,…
It’s good to see someone with authority speak up about the connection, but it’s not particularly surprising. Everyone assumed that Gaddhafi gave the ok. By David Horovitz Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM-– Adding more heat to the boiling controversy in the US and UK over Britain’s recent release to Libya of the only man ever convicted in…
This is obviously an unusual case that smacks of racism. By CLARKE CANFIELD Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Maine — The FBI is trying to find the person who posted online advertisements saying he had two-century-old “Maine Indian scalps” that he wanted to sell to white people. The FBI executed a search warrant last month at…
By The Boston Globe Editorial Page BOSTON — IT DOESN’T require world class investigators to figure out that the jig is up for the FBI in the case of four men framed by federal agents in the 1965 gangland murder of Edward Deegan in Chelsea. This week, a federal appeals court upheld a $101.7 million…
It’s hard to put a price on a wrongful conviction and a wrongful jailing. By Jonathan Saltzman Boston Globe Staff BOSTON— A federal appeals court upheld yesterday a landmark verdict for four men framed by the FBI in a gangland slaying, although the appellate judges said the $101.7 million damage judgment awarded by a lower…
