By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some murder cases during the civil rights era aren’t likely to end up in court. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that “three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful.” The Post reports that…
By The New York Times Editorial Page The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a report that is supposed to clinch the case that a lone scientist mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001, terrorizing a country already traumatized by the 9/11 attacks. The agency cites voluminous circumstantial evidence that is largely persuasive, but its report leaves…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A retired DEA agent was found dead Saturday morning in a secluded area of a park in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. in Bergen County , according to NewJersey.com. Preliminary reports indicated the cause of the death for retired agent Brian Collier, 53, was suicide, the website reported. The body was found in…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, serving 60 years for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI paid an organized crime figure to beat and intimidate people to extract information in his case. In all,…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s one secret the Secret Service would rather keep secret. ABC’s Jason Ryan reports that “a classified review of the United States Secret Service’s computer technology found that the agency’s computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Where are the missing emails from Bush lawyers blessing harsh interrogation tactics? Inquiring minds want to know. The Washington Post reports that senior Democrats and watchdog groups on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate the disappearance of what could be key emails. The paper reported that some are saying the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New Orleans political dynasty headed by disgraced ex-Congressman William Jefferson and his brother Mose Jefferson, the political operative, continues to crumble. The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that less than a month before trial, the ex-Congresman’s sister Betty Jefferson,70, a 4th District Assessor, and her daughter Angela Coleman, 53, pleaded…
