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The Blagojevich Circus is Returning: This Time With a Book
Yes, the Rod Blagojevich circus is coming back to town. Expect to see plenty appearances on tv as he hawks his book. In it, he blames five people for his problems including U.S. Atty. Patrick...
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Bush Memoir Says He Personally Gave CIA Go Ahead to Waterboard
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Bush writes in his about to be released memoir that he personally gave the go ahead to waterboard 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who currently awaits...
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Threats Prompt Borders to Cancel Book Signings of Mobster Son Who Snitched...
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You can’t expect everyone to love ya when you snitch for the FBI on your mobster dad and then write a book about it. The Chicago Tribune reports that Borders books in...
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Book About Osama bin Laden Raid Under Scrutiny; Justice Dept. Could Try to...
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department may be asked to pull a soon-to-be-published book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said Matt...
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FBI Agent, Reporter Published Book About Bizarre Heist
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent and newspaper reporter have written a book about the bizarre bank heist involving a pipe bomb that exploded around the neck of a pizza delivery...
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Author Speaks Out about New Book That Claims FBI Manufactured Terrorism Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethethewire.com Investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson has caused quite a stir since the release of his new book, “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on...
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Justice Department Gives Agent Permission to Publish Book Critical of Agency
ATF file photo Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has switched its position and said an ATF agent may publish a book about the agency’s bungled gun smuggling sting operation “Fast...
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Book Review: ”Long Mile Home,’ Recounts Boston Marathon Bombing Investigation
By Aamer Madhani USA Today On the first-year anniversary of a national tragedy, it’s inevitable for the so-called definitive account to be rolled out by publishers calculating that enough time has...
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Retired FBI Agent Publishes Book That Blasts Quality of Bureau’s Training...
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI special agent has published a book in which he describes his inadequate training at a new agent class at the academy in Quantico, Va., the Officer.com...
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Former DEA Agent Reveals Details of His Undercover Career in New Book
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former DEA agent has uncovered fascinating details of his undercover career in a book entitled, “The Dar Art: Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Narco-Terrorist...
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Former FBI Agent Reveals Tricks of Influencing People in Everyday Life
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A good FBI agent can make friends with just about anyone. Now a former agent, Jack Schafer, is sharing the tricks of the trade in a new book, “The Like Switch,”...
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Records: FBI Spied on Numerous African American Authors, Scholars for Decades
J. Edgar Hoover By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and its notoriously paranoid director J. Edgar Hoover spied on prominent African American writers for decades, monitoring their activities...
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Judge: FBI Had No Right to Pose As Internet Repairmen to Get Evidence
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents crossed the line when they posed as Internet repairmen to get access to computers in a Las Vegas Strip hotel last summer during an investigation into...
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One of Secret Service’s First Female Agents to Protect President Writes Book
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent has published a book about her experience as one of the first women on the presidential protection force, The Hill reports. Sue Ann...
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Book Chronicles FBI Special Agent’s Death in Shootout in 1935
Book by William E. Plunkett By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bill Plunkett knows a thing or two about criminal investigations. The former FBI special agent put those skills to use to investigate the...
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FBI Spied on African American Novelist James Baldwin for More Than Decade
James Baldwin/Wikipedia By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James Baldwin, a famous African American writer, was pursued for more than a decade by the FBI because of paranoia about his politics,...
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Chair of U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Gets Book Deal about...
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul is writing a book about his experience chairing the House Committee on Homeland Security, the Associated Press...
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Author: Secret Service Agents Found Hillary Clinton to Be a Nightmare to Protect
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hillary Clinton is a nightmare for Secret Service agents responsible for protecting her. So says Ronald Kessler, an investigative reporter and author of “First...
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