Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the FBI had a face in Chicago, it would be Special Agent Royden “Ross” Rice. The 32-year veteran of the bureau was a media darling, urging the public to help find the most notorious criminals. Now Rice is retiring, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Before becoming the Chicago office’s main spokesman,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James W. McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington field office, announced his retirement Thursday after just two years on the job. Authorities said the retirement is a blow to counterterrorism efforts because McJunkin had a plethora of experience in foiling and investigating terrorist plots, the Washington Post reports. McJunkin is a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ICE agent whose house in Vermont was raided over firearms has retired as investigators continue to study the case, the Burlington Free Press reports. Special Agent Richard Bernholz stepped down from his federal job Friday, about 13 months after ATF seized more than 155 firearms from his home in Franklin County,…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The White House’s cybersecurity coordinator will retire after having already extended his two -year contract by half a year. Howard Schmidt, 62, oversaw the first legislative proposal on cybersecurity, and informed the government on the nature and dangers of potential attacks… and how to prevent them, writes the Washington Post. In addition…
By Dane Schiller Houston Chronicle Dewey Webb, head of the Houston division for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is retiring this month after a career that began in 1976. T he Oklahoma native, who can trace his family to full-blooded Choctaw and Cherokee Native Americans, has gone against moonshiners, weapons traffickers, drug…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Veteran agent Roland J. Corvington, head of the St. Louis FBI, is leaving to the become chief of security at Saint Louis University, according to the St. Louis American. “I am terribly sad to see him go,” U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan for Eastern Missouri – executive prosecutor to Corvington’s top cop…
First off, the mandatory retirement age of 57 for agencies like the FBI is silly. A 57 year old today is surely capable of carrying on duties and contributing to an agency. Joe Davidson of the Washington Post reports that the Senate may vote on legislation that would allow agencies to rehire retirees without having…
