By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert Mueller was awarded one of the Justice Departments highest honors on Wednesday for his “outstanding professionalism and exemplary integrity,” reports CNN. The award was one of more than 300 commendations, forty-nine of them among intelligence officials, including counterespionage agents, for their roles in catching 10 Russian secret agents…
Salam Al-Marayati is president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. By Salam Al-Marayati Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page We in the Muslim American community have been battling the corrupt and bankrupt ideas of cults such as Al Qaeda. Now it seems we also have to battle pseudo-experts in the FBI and the Department of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger? A letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III seems to suggest so. If you recall, the Boston FBI caught hell for letting Bulger run wild and commit crimes while he acted as informant and snitched on his rivals back in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Congressional committee in Washington on Thursday morning that the FBI’s commitment on intelligence gathering and counterterrorism can be found in the numbers. Appearing before the House Permanent Select Committee Intelligence, Mueller noted that since 9/11 the agency has more than doubled the number…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III visited Pakistan Wednesday, the country where Osama bin Laden took refuge and was killed by the American military in May, the Associated Press reported. The visit comes as tension mounts over the U.S. demands that Pakistan crack down on Afghan militants hiding out in Pakistan,…
By Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) Ashbury Park Press Ten years ago, America was a nation shaken by grief and terror. Nearly 3,000 people had perished in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in the thwarted attack on the Capitol. Federal authorities were warning the public that additional al-Qaida “sleeper cells”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert S. Mueller III takes on two new records as the FBI director. For one, he’s the first director to serve a full 10-year term since J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972. And Wednesday, he became the first to get a two-year extension. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. swore Mueller in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The House on Monday is expected to consider a bill that would extend FBI Director Mueller’s 10-year term two additional years, Fox News reported. The Senate last week gave a thumbs up to the bill, and the House is expected to easily pass the legislation. Mueller’s 10-year term expires this year,…
