By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric Holder Jr., the nation’s first black Attorney General, on Monday swore in Carmen Milagros Ortiz as Massachusetts’ first woman and Hispanic U.S. Attorney. The two first met 30 years ago when Holder was a young lawyer in the Justice Department and Ortiz was a law student serving an internship in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells ESPN.com that he didn’t need baseball slugger Mark McGwire’s confession on Monday to know he was taking illegal steroids. Stejskal says informants told the FBI about McGwire’s doping regimen two decades ago and added…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A judge dropped drunk driving charges Monday against an assistant U.S. Attorney in Rhode Island who is at the center of a controversy over whether he got favorable treatment, the Associated Press reported. A Warwick, R.I. judge, at the request of the city attorney, dropped the charges against fed prosecutor Gerard…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael B. Ward has been plucked from the FBI mothership to head the agency’s Newark Division, starting in March. Ward, currently the assistant director of Counterrorism Division’s Operations Branch II at headquarters, started his FBI career in 1988 and spent the first nine years in the Dallas office dealing…
Publisher Osama Siblani By Allan Lengel For Sphere.com (A new AOL news site) WASHINGTON — The dramatic, fast-paced events of recent weeks that had parents contacting the FBI and CIA about their children’s links to radical Muslims may clear the way for other reluctant parents to come forward, say key figures in the Muslim-American community….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The news website TPMmuckraker is challenging an assertion by conservative columnist Frank Gaffney in a recent op-ed piece that D.C. FBI agent John Guandolo lost his job because of fierce opposition to radical Islamic ideology, not because he was sleeping with a key witness in the ex-Congressman William Jefferson…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department “has found significant flaws in the way Inglewood police oversee use-of-force incidents and investigate complaints against officers” and has proposed a list of reforms, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. The paper reported that the ongoing Justice Department probe found the department’s use of force policies…
