By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA station chief in Algiers was arrested Monday at a Norfolk, Va. hotel after failing to show up for a hearing last week in U.S. District Court in Washington where he faces charges of sexually assaulting a woman while stationed overseas, the website Spy Talk reported. U.S. Marshals, Diplomatic…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former Osama bin Laden associate is saying that bin Laden had no clue the U.S. would strike back as ferociously as it has since Sept. 11, 2001, WTOP radio in Washington reported. In what was billed as an exclusive interview, the radio station reported that Noman Benotman, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Philly police detective working an FBI drug task force was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for tipping off a drug kingpin about a raid in 2005, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage in Philadelphia sentenced ex-officer Rickie Durham, 44, to the two years, rejecting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Sidney Smith, a World War II vet and Nixon-appointed U.S. Attorney in Idaho, died on April 23 at the age of 95, The Associated Press reported. Born in the Midwest, he graduated from the University of Colorado law school, AP reported. In 1970, President Nixon appointed him deputy general counsel for…
By Allan Lengel For AOL NEWS A former FBI agent was sentenced Monday in California to 30 years in prison for plotting a violent home invasion of a suspected drug stash house in Orange County in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Vo Duong Tran, 42, of New Orleans, was convicted in March…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a goof that could have been costly. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI warned Port Authority police to search suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi’s car last September when he drove up to the George Washington Bridge that spans the Hudson River. But noooo. Instead, the police waved Zazi, the…
