By James Comey FBI Director I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history. And I mean “significant” in two different ways. It is, of course, significant because it was the most horrific display in world history of inhumanity, one that simply defies words and challenges meaning. I was born into…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI agents are already required to tour the Holocaust Museum. FBI Director James Comey is adding another required visit in Washington D.C. – the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the USA Today reports. “I think it will serve as a different kind of reminder — one more personal to the bureau —…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Weeks after a white supremacist shot and killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009, White House senior adviser David Axelrod showed up at his favorite Chicago Jewish deli with an entourage of Secret Service agents. In the past, he had no…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The old saying goes: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The FBI, pointing to a lesson in history when power corrupted, has been taking about 1,000 special agents each year from the FBI Training Academy to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington as part of a…
This has been one of the more brazen, biszare hate-crime incidents. At age 89, he could face the death penalty. But at that age, he’s not likely to get it. Any prison sentence will be a life sentence. Scene of the Crime By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury indicted an elderly…
Most law enforcement agents and officers are faced with the dilemma at some point or another: pull out the gun and fight it out or call for back up and follow the suspects. ATF Agent Bill Crummett had to make that decision. By Clarence Williams Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Bill Crummett had just…
FBI’s Joseph Persichin Jr./ticklethewire.com photo With economy in the dumps and the election of a first African American president, we can expect to see more of the white supremacist movement. We need to keep a closer eye on these groups and individuals who continue to spew hate. As a side note, it’s sad that an…
