Wednesday was not a banner day for the FBI. First a N.Y. FBI agent was arrested for accessing confidential information and sharing it with an informant. And then this: an ex-FBI agent convicted in a botched home invasion. By My-Thuan Tran Los Angeles Times A former FBI agent who meticulously planned to rob an Orange…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The sometimes bumpy ties between the FBI and the U.S. Muslim communities could get bumpier. The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) , a coalition of major U.S. Muslim groups, announced Tuesday that it was considering suspending “outreach relations with the FBI” as a result of…
For the second time in about four months, a New York FBI agent has been charged criminally. In December, FBI agent Mark Rossini was charged with illegally accessing FBI data bases for personal use. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — An FBI agent assigned to the New York office has been arrested on charges…
This guy sounded like big big trouble. Who knows what he got away with when he was overseas. By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — Andrew Warren, the former CIA officer accused of date rape in Algiers late last year, caused such a ruckus over parking dispute at a Washington, D.C. hotel three years earlier…
Anyone who has ever filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI knows it can take forever to get the results. They also know they may not ever get the results they want. A private group, the National Security Archives, is now giving the agency grief about this — and deservedly so. By…
By Joe Holley Washington Post Staff Writer Jerry H. Breidenfeld, 83, a retired agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died March 6 at Reston Hospital Center of congestive heart failure. He moved to Ashburn in 2006 after living in Reston for many years. Dr. Breidenfeld joined the FBI in 1951 and served in Knoxville,…
The D.C. government is just recovering from its Tax office scandal in which about $50 million was stolen. Now we have another scandal, though thankfully it doesn’t match up to the tax scandal. By Del Quentin Wilber and Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — A D.C. government official and a business executive were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s James McJunkin told a Congressional Committee Thursday that the “principal lesson from the Mumbai attacks remains that a small number of trained and determined attackers with relatively unsophisticated weapons can do a great deal of damage.” “Last week’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahaore,…
