Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s lack of safeguards in collecting suspicious activity leads to privacy violations as well as racial and religious profiling, the ACLU claimed in a new report, the Washington Post reports. The FBI collects so-called “suspicious activity” records using the eGuardian system, which has caused confusion among different law enforcement agencies, the…
Michael P. Kortan is the assistant director of Public Affairs for the FBI at headquarters in Washington. By Michael Kortan N.Y. Times Letter to the Editor WASHINGTON — I take issue with several points in your Oct. 18 editorial “Who Mailed the Anthrax Letters?” First, the National Academy of Sciences report concluded that the anthrax…
Michael Kortan is assistant director for public affairs for the FBI in Washington. His letter to the editor is in response to a June 19 Editorial in the New York Times. By Michael P. Kortan New York Times Letter to Editor WASHINGTON — The purpose of the attorney general guidelines and F.B.I. policy contained in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Federal agencies on Tuesday tipped their hats to America’s Most Wanted, one day after Fox announced it was canceling the show after 23 years. “For 23 years, John Walsh and the ‘America’s Most Wanted’ team have worked tirelessly to make communities across the country safer and more secure,” Michael…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Expect a game of musical chairs over at FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue now that the number two person John Pistole has left the agency and Timothy Murphy, the number three person, has replaced him. Nothing has been announced yet, but the rumors are circulating. Here’s one set of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the head of the New York FBI, the agency’s largest office, is under internal investigation in connection with an alleged affair he had with an underling in management, sources familiar with the situation told ticklethewire.com., which broke the story. Demarest, who has headed the New…
