By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What do you get when you have a cop, a stun gun and an unruly 10-year-old girl who doesn’t want to take a shower? Answer: An FBI investigation. The Associated Press is reporting that the Ozark, Ark., Mayor Vernon McDaniel and the city Police Chief Jim Noggle announced on Friday that…
The Justice Department and FBI need to continually work on the relationship with the Arab-American and Muslim communities no matter how strained things get. It’s good for both sides. And no better place to make a speech like this than in the Detroit area, home to one of the largest, if not thee largest, Arab-American…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Twenty six people around the nation were indicted in a scheme to rip off millions of dollars from the Federal Communications Commission’s program that allows the deaf and hard of hearing to communicate with the hearing through special video equipment. FBI agents and Postal Inspectors from states including New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two more Philadelphia cops have been stripped of their police powers as part of an ongoing FBI/local probe into perjury and misconduct in the department, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. The department’s Internal Affairs Bureau took the action against the officers, bringing to five the number of cops who have been…
By Eugene Robinson The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to bring the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other accused terrorists to New York for trial can’t seriously believe the city will have trouble handling the expected “trial of the century” hoopla. The critics can’t really…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jeffrey C. Johnson has been named the FBI’s assistant director for the Office of Information Technology Systems Development. He will also assume the role of the agency’s chief technology officer, the FBI announced Thursday. Before joining the bureau in August, he worked in the private sector where “he managed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Can you spell M-I-S-T-R-I-A-L? Well, it may be too early to assume one will be declared in the racketeering trial of mobster John Gotti Jr., but it can’t be ruled out at this point. A federal judge in New York ordered jurors on Thursday to keep deliberating even after they declared…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III, who served under President Ronald Reagan, is the latest big name to publicly criticize the White House decision to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in a civilian court in New York. The Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for…
