By James F. McCarty The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND — FBI Agent Christine Oliver’s introduction to Cleveland, where she would play a significant role in the biggest public corruption case in Ohio history, began inauspiciously. Before graduating from the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., Oliver and the rest of the class of 1997 participated in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…
By EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press QUANTICO, Va. — Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators. The 547-acre FBI Academy, where some of the nation’s best marksmen fire off more than 1 million bullets every month, happens to be one of the safest places…
Ex-FBI Mary Ellen O’Toole is the author of the new book: ” Dangerous Instincts.” By Monica Hesse Washington Post WASHINGTON — The man sitting in front of Mary Ellen O’Toole was, she says, a well-mannered guy. “He was low-key. He was nice. He didn’t swear.” He was very proud of his work, which he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI presentation at Quantico, Va., to agents that negatively portrayed devout Muslims, has been discontinued, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AP, citing a federal law enforcement official, said the lecture was given for just three days in April. One part of the lecture contended that the more devout Muslim are,…
By Spencer Ackerman WIRED (Danger Room) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has a mystery on its hands: Who the heck keeps shooting at buildings overnight in Northern Virginia? The latest came either late Monday or early Tuesday when authorities discovered that someone had shot at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting center in Woodbridge, Va., the Washington Post reports. Authorities are…
The FBI behavioral unit at Quantico has had its hand in many cases over the years. Sometimes it has been right on and other times — not even close. It may be a science, but it’s impossible to be right all the time. BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Newsday Before they ever made an arrest, Nassau…
