By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John V. Gillies, who headed the FBI’s St. Louis office, has been named special agent in charge of the Miami division, the FBI announced Friday. He replaces Jonathan I. Solomon, who retired. Gillies, a Chicago native, started his FBI career in 1983 as a financial analyst. Two years later,…
The media just assumes its letters to politicians won’t be made public. Wrong. It happens. In this case, the media shamefully sucked up to ex-Ill Gov. Blago to get interviews. By John Cook Gawker On the morning he was arrested on corruption charges last December, Rod Blagojevich was the nation’s biggest greaseball. So obviously, the national…
It’s good to see someone with authority speak up about the connection, but it’s not particularly surprising. Everyone assumed that Gaddhafi gave the ok. By David Horovitz Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM-– Adding more heat to the boiling controversy in the US and UK over Britain’s recent release to Libya of the only man ever convicted in…
Former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has said politics played a role in the color-coded terror alerts. It sure seemed that way. Then again, it’s always easy to play it safe and raise the color code. The color code was immediately raised whenever the administration learned of a terrorist threat, even if it was several…
This is obviously an unusual case that smacks of racism. By CLARKE CANFIELD Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Maine — The FBI is trying to find the person who posted online advertisements saying he had two-century-old “Maine Indian scalps” that he wanted to sell to white people. The FBI executed a search warrant last month at…
Here’s what Alberto Gonzales originally said: “We obviously worked very hard during the Bush administration to establish ground rules to establish parameters about how to deal with terrorists, because we’re a nation of laws, and if people go beyond that, I think it is legitimate to question and examine that conduct to ensure people are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Eugene J. Lockhart could be playing football again, but this time behind bars. The FBI on Thursday arrested Lockhart, 48, whose nickname was once “The Hitting Machine”, on mortgage fraud charges. The feds charged Lockhart and eight others in a classic mortgage fraud scheme that involved “straw…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suddenly Yankee Stadium had a lot of folks with guns. About 2,000 FBI agents and support staff descended on Yankee Stadium on Wednesday for a mandatory annual meeting for the New York FBI office, something that was ridiculed by several agents as an annoying waste of time, according to a New…
