April 18, 2010
Column: 15 Years After the Oklahoma Bombing, We Must Not Forget the Potential of Homegrown Terrorism
This column was reprinted from a year ago. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One Friday, two days after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, I was sitting at my desk at the Detroit News in downtown Detroit when I got a tip that the FBI was raiding a farmhouse in Michigan, and it had…
15 Years Later, Oklahoma Bomber’s Brother Keeps His Distance from Limelight
By Allan Lengel For AOL New Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, James Nichols — whose younger brother Terry was convicted in the case — isn’t really talking, except to say he’s still an organic farmer in Michigan. “I’m not commenting unless you’ve got a big checkbook,” Nichols told AOL News in a phone…
Do the Troops Trust Ex-FBI Agent Jody Weis — Chicago’s Police Chief?
It’s not easy being an outsider in a police department with a rich tradition of people rising through the ranks. It also doesn’t help to have come from the FBI. Have the troops accepted ex-FBI agent Jody Weis as Chicago’s Police chief? He says yes, but tells the Chicago News Cooperative:”There will be a certain…