To the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office, the characters were voices on wiretaps or investigative files or criminal case numbers. To the public, they still represent a slice of fascination. BY Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER That Starbucks over there? Used to be the scene of one of the city’s most notorious mob hits….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A veteran DEA agent was shot multiple times and wounded in Afghanistan on Sunday while on a mission, according to people familiar with the incident. The veteran agent, who was a team leader of the DEA FAST Team (Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team) was shot and wounded in Marjeh,…
Eric Holder is struggling with a typical dilemma in Washington: He’s a nice guy and he’s trying to stay a nice, decent guy while dealing with all the politics. The Obama administration wants to have an independent Justice Department, unlike the one run by Alberto Gonzales. But the administration doesn’t want to put up a…
Prof. Amy Bishop/university photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to think of a biology teacher as a dangerous person. Boring? Long winded? Possibly. But dangerous? Well, not only did biology professor Amy Bishop allegedly kill three colleagues and wound three more in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells the Detroit News that he thinks agents acted appropriately when they fatally shot an imam 20 times during an October raid in Dearborn, Mi, after the imam shot and killed an FBI dog. “Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The political bickering and posturing over the questioning of the Christmas Day bomber continued in true Washington fashion Sunday. Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, who some may view as being on a campaign to prop up or save his legacy, went on ABC and said the administration should have considered…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Allan Kornblum, 71, a Florida federal magistrate, an ex-FBI agent who worked on civil rights cases in the 1960s, and a Justice Department official credited with writing key passages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), died last week of cancer in Gainesville, Fla., the Washington Post reported. Kornblum,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes public corruption — particularly in Louisiana — has a way of making you snicker — at least for a moment. The sentencing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans of ex-State Sen. Derrick Shepherd on Thursday to 37 months in prison for money laundering made me think of the rich…
