Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. This column first appeared in the New York Daily News. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the summer of 2004, a Senate sub-committee, chaired by Senators Charles Grassley and Joseph Biden held a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion, something…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The Secret Service probably wished this little embarrassment remained a secret. Thieves made off over the weekend with a U-Haul truck parked in downtown Detroit that contained equipment for the U.S. Secret Service, which was planning a protection detail for Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke Sunday in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The U.S. Postal Service is grateful people can’t email everything. But this certainly wasn’t what it had in mind. A Minnesota woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday for mailing threats to Vice President Joe Biden, an FBI agent and others over the past two decades, reports the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite catching flack from critics, Vice President Joseph R. Biden will continue to charge the Secret Service rent for a cottage on his Delaware property so they can protect him, the Washington Times reports. The paper reports that a Nov. 2 purchase order shows Secret Service approved rent payments of $2,200…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sounds like a case of displaced anger. After all, why Joe Biden? Justin Alan Woodward was charged with threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden after allegedly posting a message on the White House website, the Associated Press reported. He faces a detention hearing Wednesday in Hawaii. AP reports that Secret…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes the Secret Service acts like over-protective parents when it comes to its protectees. Vice President Joe Biden complains in the October issue of Car and Driver Magazine that the Secret Service won’t let him drive around town in his beloved 1967 green Corvette. “The Secret Service won’t let me drive…
