By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal cop for Homeland Security was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for making illegal traffic stops and illegally detaining people in Georgia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta announced. Stephen G. House, 53, of Silver Creek, Ga., a law enforcement and security officer for the Federal Protective Service…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. fired off a letter Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to pass legislation blocking the administration from moving Guantanamo terrorist suspects to U.S. soil. “This provision goes well beyond existing law and would unwisely restrict the ability of the Executive branch to prosecute alleged terrorists…
Joe Valiquette is a retired FBI supervisory special agent and J. Peter Donald is a public affairs specialist for the FBI in New York. This is the first of a three part series written for the FBI. By Joe Valiquette and J. Peter Donald Thirty years ago, in the heart of New York City, on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 21-year-old Baltimore man busted in an FBI sting on charges of trying to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., , was aware of the FBI sting in Portland in November involving a suspected terrorist, but decided to move forward with his plan anyways, the Associated Press reported….
