By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agent Joshua Skule has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division at the Washington Field Office (WFO). He most recently served as a deputy assistant director (DAD) in the Counterterrorism Division (CTD) at FBI headquarters. Skule began his career as a special agent with the FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ongoing battle to land the new FBI headquarters has prompted a tussle between Maryland and Virginia about where most of the bureau’s staff actually live, the Washington Post reports. According to a previously unreleased study from 2012 by the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Maryland is the most popular…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The search for a future FBI headquarters should soon be narrowed down to a short list, the Washington Post reports. Communities and politicians in Virginia and Maryland are watching closely as the FBI looks to build the largest new federal campus in more than 50 years. Once the list is narrowed down…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new Homeland Security headquarters in Washington will be much smaller than initially conceived because of budget cuts approved by the House on Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Instead of having $354 million for the HQ, the agency will have about $155 million. The Republican-Controlled House Appropriations Committee described the bill as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Tough times mean desperate measures for the FBI. To absorb budget reductions, the FBI plans to close its headquarters and offices nationwide for about 10 weekdays over the next year, The New York Times reports. On the furlough days, the FBI will maintain a small crew with the ability to call back…
By Jonathan O’Connell Washington Post It was 35 minutes past the scheduled start time when everyone had finally made their way through the security and Dan Tangherlini, acting administrator of the General Services Administration, took the podium. He assumed by the size of the crowd — an estimated 350 people, some of them watching on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Virginia is continuing its push to lure a new FBI headquarters. Oldtown Alexandria Patch reports that local, state and congressional leaders met Thursday in Arlington to discuss six potential sites in Northern Virginia for the headquarters. Patch wrote: Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, who called the meeting, said leaders from Fairfax,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Stephen Jimerson, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, died last Thursday at his home in Mitchellville, Md., from a brain-related cancer. He was was 59. In February 1985, Jimerson was assigned to the FBI’s Tampa office, his first posting in the agency. While in Florida, he studied intensive Russian, according…
