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FBI Agent Who Lectured Sports Teams about Drugs Dies at 67

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James A. McIntosh was not just any lecturer. The 6-foot-7 FBI agent was a basketball standout at Villanova University and considered a role model for many of the younger athletes he spoke to about the evils of drugs, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. McIntosh died on June 29 after a battle with…

FBI Considered a Sting Aimed at Newt Gingrich in 1997

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By James V. Grimaldi Washington Post WASHINGTON –It is a curious case in the annals of the FBI: The bureau considered a sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich after sifting through allegations from a notorious arms dealer that a $10 million bribe might get Congress to lift the Iraqi arms embargo. The FBI ended…