By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On Monday, for the second time in less than a week, a federal judge declared a mistrial in a high profile Justice Department case that captured the interest of many nationwide. A federal judge in Brooklyn declared a mistrial in the case against Hal Turner, a New Jersey shock…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Michigan’s rustic Upper Peninsula, where the beer is cheap and the winters long, a locale far removed from the glamor and stardom of Hollywood, authorities arrested two people for allegedly threatening to release damaging 2004 party photos of actor John Stamos if he didn’t pay them $680,000, according to an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what came as little of a surprise, federal prosecutors in Chicago charged suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley with helping plot the deadly India attack in Mumbia that killed more than 165 people in 2008. The Associated Press reported that prosecutors charged Headley with helping scope out targets for the Mumbai…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even if prosecutors convict suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his cronies, they may not convince a N.Y. jury to put them to death. The Los Angeles Times quotes a former N.Y. federal prosecutor Paul Butler who worked major terrorism cases as saying: “It will be an uphill…
This report clearly shows the difficulties the Secret Service is up against. The big question is: Is the Secret Service learning and improving from each and every mistake? secret service photo By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret…
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