Ex-FBI DIrector Robert S. Mueller III By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Ex-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has bigger fish to fry, as the saying goes. Mueller has resigned from his appointment as Special Master in the Takata airbag criminal restitution fund to carry on as special counsel to head up the Justice Department’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the stoic leader of the bureau from 2001 to 2013, has been appointed special counsel to investigate whether the Russians influenced the 2016 campaign and the administration of President Donald Trump. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment on Wednesday, saying in a statement:…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura A. Bucheit, who served as a special assistant to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, has been named special agent in charge of the agency’s Las Vegas Division, the Las-Vegas Review-Journal reports. Bucheit’s career with the FBI began in 1996 at the Baltimore Division, where she investigated terrorism and other serious…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the end, President Obama opted for a white guy — and a lawyer at that — to head the FBI. It appears America is not quite ready for a woman, or a black person for that matter, to head what the White House and some others clearly see as the…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The wheels are starting to churn in the movement to extend FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s stay for two years beyond his 10-year term. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 10 a.m. to address the issue. After a search began to replace Mueller, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michelle Ann Jupina, the deputy assistant director for operations support in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, has been named assistant director of the agency’s Records Management Division at headquarters. Prior to her stint at headquarters, Jupina served for two years as special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office’s…
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…
