Weekend Series: More on J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys
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By Brian Schott ticklethewire.com China has a well-known taste for trading in strange and exotic animal parts. Bear bile. Rhinoceros horn. But endangered sea turtle guitar picks? Qing Song, a Santa Rosa, Calif., woman, pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Francisco federal court to violating the Lacey Act by importing from China guitar picks and turtle…
The former purchasing director for Nabisco had steered contracts for tomatoes to SK Foods at inflated prices in exchange for bribes. SK Foods had formerly been in trouble for lying about the quality of potentially mold-filled shipments of tomato. Maybe these people should face a firing squad armed with moldy tomatoes. By Denny Walsh Sacramento…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nine months after the real suspect in the anthrax killings committed suicide, there are still plenty unanswered questions as to why the FBI let its top investigator on the case focus for so long on the wrong guy, Steven Hatfill, even after some investigators and prosecutors expressed serious skepticism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Though law enforcement is still often considered a “boys club”, women are landing a number of top spots at the Department of Homeland Security. Rich Cooper, a columnist for Security DeBrief, has compiled an impressive list of woman holding top spots besides Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano. “While I’ve not…
It might be just a little ironic that the integrity of the Public Integrity Unit is on shaky ground these days. This once elite unit has taken a beating of late and the Atty. General knows he’s got a lot of work to do to turn things around. By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON…
These type of breaches undermine the integrity of the system and reminds us that the this type of corruption just doesn’t happen south of the border. By John Shiffman and George Anastasia Inquirer Staff Writers PHILADELPHIA — Hours before ATF agents raided his home and arrested him in 2005, Philadelphia drug kingpin Alton “Ace Capone”…
The questions are: Is this battle worth it? Is it bad public relations? And are there better ways for the FBI to spend its resources? By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — You’d think that the nation’s number one domestic counterterrorism agency would have better things to do than yap at authors and publishers about…