By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III headed out to California earlier this week, not to let his hair down, but to meet in Silicon Valley with top executives from several companies including Facebook and Google to discuss a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users, the New…
By Kathleen McChesney, Ph.D. FBI Executive Assistant Director (ret.) As Robert S. Mueller III completes the final year of his ten-year term as the Director of the FBI, President Barack Obama and the United States Senate will have the critically important responsibility of nominating and confirming his successor. This selection process should be devoid of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is pushing to update laws to help agents keep up with the rapidly changing technology so they can effectively conduct surveillance of communications in anti-terrorism and other cases. At a conference of intelligence experts in Washington, Mueller said there have been instances in…
By Coleen Rowley Ex-FBI Agent For Huffington Post The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a couple other Midwest cities. Members of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There’s longevity on the job, and then there’s John “Jack” C. Keeney. On Friday, the Justice Department held a retirement ceremony to mark the end of his 59-year career as the longest serving federal prosecutor in U.S. history. According to a Justice Department account of the event, as Keeney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Senate Committee Wednesday that he’s concerned about terrorist plots against the U.S. coming primarily from three sources: core al Qaeda, al Qaeda’s affiliates, and homegrown extremists. “In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, al Qaeda’s plots and plans primarily focused on using…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — To cheat or not to cheat on an open-book exam. That is no longer an issue among FBI agents around the country now that the test is long over. Now the question is, should those who did cheat on the FBI exam last year — and they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even the FBI director doesn’t get out of reporting for jury duty. Director Robert S. Mueller III showed up Monday for jury duty at D.C. Superior Court, the city’s criminal court, the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reported. Mueller, who showed up with an “ear-pieced security guy in tow”,…
