Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The competition for a new FBI headquarters and thousands of new jobs now includes Montgomery County, a suburban D.C. County in Maryland, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery joins Prince George County in Maryland and Fairfax County and Alexandria in Virginia to the list of places soliciting developers and consulting with federal officials…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Virginia and Maryland are stepping up competition to land the new headquarters of the FBI, the Washington Examiner reports. Drawn by the promise of 12,000 new jobs and an infusion of new tax revenue, the states and cities are lobbying hard to replace the current headquarters in Washington D.C., the four-decade-old J….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fairfax County in Virginia is lobbying the FBI to move its headquarters to an abandoned warehouse in Springfield, the Washington Post reports. The location is perfect, Fairfax officials said. It’s close to the Metro and major highways and the warehouse meets the needs of a new headquarters, the Post reported. It appears…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Virginia woman who hit the yard sale equivalent of the jackpot with the $7 purchase of a rare Renoir painting may have gotten more than she bargained for, the Washington Post reports. A highly publicized auction for the impressionist painting was canceled after new evidence found this week suggests the work…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office will be among those honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at a ceremony in D.C. on Sept. 24. The ADL, a Jewish organization that works closely with law enforcement on hate crimes and terrorism issues, is presenting the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was stolen in Mesa, Az, but recovered in Virginia. The FBI’s Washington Field Office said Thursday that it helped recover the rare first edition of the Book of Mormon, which has been swiped from a bookstore in Arizona over Memorial Day weekend. Authorities said the book was recovered earlier this…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com New roomier digs are coming in 2013 for one of the FBI’s smallest divisions. WAVY.com reports that the FBI will move its Hampton Roads regional headquarters from Norfolk to Chesapeake, Virginia. Special Agent in Charge John Boles told WAVY.com the new three-story office building will be about twice the size of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA officer, who helped track down and capture a big terror suspect, was charged Monday with repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities, the Justice Department said. The charges were…
