Plenty Bring Guns to Airports

By Allan Lengel For AOL News As Internet headlines swirl about an Egyptian-American botany professor who was detained in Cairo today for carrying guns and ammunition in his luggage, keep one thing in mind: Americans bring guns to the airport all the time. Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s not. The Transportation Security Administration says…

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Defense Atty. Accuses FBI of Improperly Recording Detroit Journalist’s Conversations in Public Corruption Case

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-federal prosecutor turned defense attorney is accusing the FBI of improperly taping conversations of a Detroit journalist and fabricating documents by describing him as an “unknown male.”, according to the Detroit News. The defense attorney Richard Convertino, in a court filing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, claimed…

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Head of NY FBI Joseph Demarest Permanently Reassigned to Headquarters

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Demarest, the head of New York FBI, who had been under internal investigation in connection with an affair he’d had with a supervisor in his office, will become the new Assistant Director of the International Operations Division at headquarters in Washington, ticklethewire.com has learned. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman…

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Pakistani Investigators Say There’s No Evidence NY Bomber Linked to Pakistani Taliban, London Paper Reports

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Pakistani investigators say there is no evidence so far that the New York car bomber Faisal Shahzad was carrying out the bombing on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban, contrary to American claims, the Guardian newspaper of London. The London paper quoted an unnamed Pakistani security official with knowledge of the investigation…

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