By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 67-year-old retired FBI agent in Nevada has pleaded guilty to evading about $109,000 in income taxes, authorities said. Jan Lindsey of Henderson, Nevada, pleaded guilty Friday in Las Vegas to one count of felony tax evasion. Sentencing is set for July 9. The 26-year-veteran of the FBI retired in 1995…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano echoed what has been said pretty much all along: Suicide pilot Joseph Stack, 53, who crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin last month was not a domestic terrorist but simply someone carrying out a personal agenda. Napolitano made those remarks Tuesday in a…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Bush officials are stepping up to say that it’s not a good idea to limit terrorism trials to just military tribunals — something some Republicans are pushing for. The New York Times reports that ex-Bush officials feel limiting the trials to military tribunals would weaken the government’s hand. “This rush to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Orange County, Calif. man has been charged with running a massive visa fraud scheme that involved taking exams for students from counties like Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar so they could maintain their lawful immigration status, authorities said Monday. Eamon Daniel Higgins, 46, of Laguna…
By Marc A. Thiessen Washington Post Op-Ed Would most Americans want to know if the Justice Department had hired mob lawyers and then put them in charge of mob cases? Of course. They would rightly want their elected representatives to find out who these lawyers were and what roles they were playing at Justice. Yet…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After the first nominee went down in flames, President Obama is once again trying to fill the top spot at the Transportation Security Administration, which watches over our airports. The White House on Tuesday nominated Robert A. Harding, saying he has spent more than 35 years working in the intelligence community….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The engaged daughter of an ex-FBI agent who vanished in 2007 while visiting an island off Iran, issued an open letter to the U.S. and Iran pleading for help. “As you know, my father, Robert “Bob” Levinson, has been missing in Iran since March 9th, 2007, when he disappeared from Kish…
