By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Three detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the custody of the nation of Georgia, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The three detainees, whose names were not released “for security and privacy reasons” were transferred as part of the U.S. effort to close Guantanamo Bay. “The United States…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Could this be a case of the Tea Party gone wild? Politico reports that the FBI is looking into a propane gas line that was cut at the home of a Congressman’s brother’s home in Charlottesville, Va. The Congressman, Tom Perriello (D-Va.) voted in favor of the health care…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-Deputy Attorney Gen. David Ogden, who returned to private practice after a brief stint in the Obama Justice Department, said Tuesday that the government’s decision to drop the Sen. Ted Stevens case in 2009 after he’d been convicted was “painful”, according to the website The BLT: The Blog of…
white house photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into two death threats against President Obama that surfaced on Twitter regarding the historic health care vote in the House, according to the Daily Telegraph of Australia. “We are aware of the comments and are taking the appropriate investigative action,”…
The popularity of online gambling has certainly caught the eyes of the feds considering it’s illegal in the U.S. Investigative reporter Van Smith takes a look at what the feds are doing about it. By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — On Dec. 21, 2006, someone in Maryland opened an account with bodog.com, an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — German carmaker Daimler has apparently been up to no good. The New York Times, attributing information to “a person familiar with the case”, reports that Daimler will pay $185 million in fines and and two of its subsidiaries “will plead guilty to bribing foreign government officials, to settle a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What better way to announce that you’re going before a grand jury than to tweet it to the world. Ex-baseball slugger Jose Conseco did just that on Tuesday when he announced on Twitter that he had been subpoenaed by a grand jury looking into whether baseball star Roger Clemens lied to…
