FOX 2 - Former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, Andy Arena, admits that after Thursday's stunning arrest of 13 men who authorities said were plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the next few weeks are going to be rocky. "I'm nervous over the next th...
[Ed: for the love of God, why is such an assurance necessary?] FBI Director Christopher Wray “made it clear” during an October speech that FBI agents “would not be attending school board meetings” and the Bureau “would stay in its own lane,” a former agent who saw the speech tol...
Reacting to Judge Emmet Sullivan’stongue-lashingof former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in court Tuesday, former FBI special agent and current CNN analyst Asha Rangappa had a straightforward read: “This judge don’t play.” Referring to Flynn’s claimsin a sentencing memothat FBI ag...
According to an attorney and former FBI agent representing FBI whistleblowers, some FBI agents think FBI Director Christopher Wray should resign because the FBI is out of control. Last week, Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent, left the FBI. Thibault had helped lead the FBI's ...
Former FBI special agent Clint Watts.Clint Watts INTELLIGENCE MATTERS: CLINT WATTS TRANSCRIPT PRODUCER: PAULINA SMOLINSKI MICHAEL MORELL: We wanted to focus on what foreign governments might be up to right now in terms of interfering with the election and what might be coming as we get clos...
That October, then-director James B. Comey appointed Mr. McGonigal special agent in charge of counterintelligence in New York, overseeing hundreds of agents and support staff. It was a return to where Mr. McGonigal had gotten his start, but in a vastly more important role. ...
sense that they wire up the father to have a meeting with the person that is trying to scam them,” Tom O’Connor, a former FBI counterterrorism special agent and past president of the FBI Agents’ Association, told TPM. “That would mean that person is gathering evidence on the ...
Mueller was driven by a career-long passion for the painstaking work of building successful criminal cases. Even as head of the FBI, he would surprise agents by digging into the details of bureau investigations, some major cases, others less so -- sometimes surprising agents who suddenly found...
FBI agents, using a wide-ranging search warrant, raided Manafort's home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the Washington Post reported earlier Wednesday, quoting people familiar with the special counsel Robert Mueller probe into ties between Trump's campaign andRussia. ...
Bill Clinton signed off in 1993 on The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which required background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) maintained by the FBI before a gun is purchased. [Pictured: President Barack Obama greets James Brady at the White ...