By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alice J. Manning, 82, who was featured in a Washington Post article in 1946 along with her seven brothers and sisters, and who worked as a secretary for the FBI and an administrative assistant for the Justice Department, died in Baltimore last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. She…
tefillin/istock photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye. A US Airways Express flight carrying 15 passengers from New York to Louisville on Thursday was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish teenager put on a religious prayer object called a tefillin, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said the 17-year-old from White Plains, N.Y., put on the tefillin,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Drama for the cast of “Two and a Half Men” seems to be going far beyond the tv screen. TMZ is reporting that the FBI is investigating allegations by Jon Cryer, who co-stars with Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit, that his ex-wife may have hired a hitman to kill him….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Let the fun begin. The Justice Department is firing back as tension between the agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence seems to be on the rise. On Wednesday, Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told a Congressional committee that he was never consulted before the FBI decided…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested a lieutenant from a suburban Maryland police department on child pornography charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a teenage girl and the exchange of sexually explicit photos and messages via phone texts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore announced Thursday. James Cifala, 47, of the…
By Allan Lengel tickethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of U.S. District Judge Beverly Martin, a former U.S. Attorney, to the federal court of appeals judge in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Martin joins the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Georgia, Alabama and Florida. “It is humbling that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that the Obama administration was flabbergasted Wednesday when Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair testified before Congress and said the infamous Christmas Day underwear bomber should have been questioned by a special interrogation unit that doesn’t exist rather than by the FBI. Newsweek reported…
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