July 15, 2011
Column: The Clemens Case — Beware of the Hunt for Big Game
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you go hunting for big game — particularly dangerous targets — you better be prepared. You also better be a good aim. Screw up and it can cost you — particularly if it’s a lion or a tiger or some other creature that can devour you. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
Feds Indict Man Who Used Internet to Encourage Terrorist Attacks on Police Stations, Bridges, Water Plants and Synagogues
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man was indicted in Virginia on Thursday on charges of using the Internet to solicit Islamic extremists to commit terrorist acts on such targets as police stations and synagogues within the U.S. and posting bomb-making instructions. Emerson Winfield Begolly, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was indicted by a federal…
Book Review: The Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
By Lisa Sweetingham LA Weekly​ William C. Rempel, who for 36 years worked as an investigative reporter and editor at the L.A. Times, has written the book At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel, which came out last month. The insider in question is Jorge Salcedo,…