By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service got a little visit Wednesday from one of its protectees — First lady Michelle Obama. Politico reports that she checked out the intricate works that goes into protecting her family. She called the daily task of agents “pretty scary.” “All I can say is, after my little tour,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Keith L. Bennett, deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Training Division, is getting a bump up to assistant director of the agency’s Inspection Division, the FBI announced Wednesday. Bennett began his career as an FBI special agent in 1987 and was initially assigned to the Salt Lake City Division, where…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Ohio State University student Jonathan Birkmeyer: Try just not showing up for the test next time. Or make up some crazy excuse. But don’t send the FBI a fake bomb threat. Birkmeyer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to sending a fake bomb threat to FBI headquarters that resulted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brenda L. Heck, deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division. Prior to entering the FBI, she was a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 1985-88. In 1988, Heck joined…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Mike Stenger, the wise-cracking, New Jersey bred, 35-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service whose protective details included President Reagan, Jesse Jackson and Egypt President Anwar Sadat, is hanging up his badge and gun. Friday is his last day. At a retirement party Thursday at Secret Service headquarters in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman gets a bump up at FBI headquarters from associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch to executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch. “Janet brings a tremendous amount of expertise in human resources and leadership to this position,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has had talks about moving its aging headquarters to Maryland, but the tanking economy may have put any plans on hold, the Washington Post reported Sunday. A lawsuit filed by Greenbelt Ventures against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, says Metroland Developers was “secretly meeting with WMATA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Demarest, the head of New York FBI, who had been under internal investigation in connection with an affair he’d had with a supervisor in his office, will become the new Assistant Director of the International Operations Division at headquarters in Washington, ticklethewire.com has learned. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman…
