The author is a retired ATF Deputy Assistant Director.

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Pakistani national in connection with a sweeping $650 million fraud scheme that ...

A cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider is targeting North American airlines in a wave of extortion-driven attacks, ...

Witnesses to the FBI’s search for a fabled cache of Civil War-era gold in a Pennsylvania forest have raised questions about the bureau’s dig in March 2018. The FBI insists it came up empty-handed ...

Some Democrats and Republicans in Congress are calling for a temporary ban on the federal government’s use of facial recognition technology after the FBI revealed it had accumulated more than 640 ...

A bipartisan Senate bill would create a reserve Border Patrol, give agents a 14% pay raise, and increase the number of total agents to 20,500. The bill was introduced by Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., ...

By Steve Neavling. The FBI is asking the public to report hospitals, clinics, and health care providers that offer gender-affirming care to transgender minors, as part of the Trump administration’s ...

The Trump administration has fired at least three federal prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to two people familiar with the ...

Federal air marshals are pushing for a break from the TSA, advocating for a new organizational home where they can fully embrace their law enforcement roles. They argue that their current placement ...

By Steve Neavling. FBI agents raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Thursday morning. Agents carried 80 boxes out of the first-term mayor’s four-bedroom home, the Guardian reports. The ...

A Defense Intelligence Agency employee was arrested Thursday after allegedly attempting to share classified material with a foreign government, federal prosecutors said. Nathan Villas Laatsch, an IT ...

By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. Some federal agencies have not taken adequate steps to prevent another botched gun-smuggling investigation like the one known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” ...