This column was originally posted on April 14, 2010. Because I thought it continued to be relevant, it was re-posted last year (2013) on April 2. (I had no idea how relevant it would become.) The subject of the column, “April 19th,” first became significant when some New England citizens confronted a unit of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two ATF agents were wounded in Oklahoma after trying to arrest a man wanted in a shooting, the Associated Press reports. The agents, whose names were not revealed, were treated and released and sustained no serious injuries. Seventeen-year-old Henry Jackson was shot and killed by local police after he opened fire on…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Mark and I never really hit it off. I first met Mark Koernke in the late ‘80s. Gene Ward, a fellow FBI agent, had asked me to accompany him…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bank robberies are spiking in Oklahoma. According to the FBI, bank robberies have nearly tripled in the state, from 23 last year to more than 60 this year, KFOR reports. It’s unclear what caused the unusual spike, but the FBI said two-thirds of the robberies have led to arrests.
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Listen my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy Five…. Longfellow’s poem forever immortalized Paul Revere’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Muslim man from Oklahoma claims he’s being harassed by the FBI after he was twice barred from flying from Qatar to visit his sick mother in the United States, the Associated Press reports. Now that he’s back home in the U.S., Saadiq Long says local and federal authorities are trying to…
Ediotial New York Times It was no surprise that a fierce budget hawk like Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, pounced on ridiculous grants doled out by the Department of Homeland Security supposedly to help local police and fire departments prepare for terrorist attacks. Mr. Coburn’s recent report on the department’s decade-long, $7 billion program,…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Oklahoman lobbyist Andy Skeith is slinking out of a corruption trial scott-free… except for $141,000 in legal fees. He’d like the federal government to cover his costs. Sound crazy? Depends who’s judging. The FBI set up a fake company and gave Skeith $10,000 to make illegal contributions to 2 Okahoma state lawmakers….
