By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — James Cavanaugh, who recently retired as a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives official after 33 years, Monday shared his insights into the Times Square car bomb with AOL News. Cavanaugh said he thought the culprit or culprits likely had international ties. He also said he…
UPDATE: The Judge late Monday granted a request by the U.S. Attorney to delay until Wednesday at 5 p.m. the release of the suspects to give the government time to decide whether to appeal her ruling, the Detroit Free Press reported. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a ruling that raises some questions about strength of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Court authorized wiretaps issued by federal and state judges in criminal cases jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, and not one request was turned down, the website WIRED reported. Citing a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, WIRED reported that courts authorized 2,376…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Well Prez, you’re off the hook for now. Looks like you won’t be going to the Blagojevich circus. A federal judge in Chicago on Friday refused to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify in the trial of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Associated Press reported. Blagojevich, who…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Investigators Find NY Bomb Plot May Have Foreign Ties (AOL News) Car Used in Car Bomb Had Been Sold in Cash Deal (NY Times)
The very able author Jonathan Eig, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who has written books on baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig , has now written about another type of legend, and a ruthless one at that: Al Capone. It details his colorful life and how the feds brought him down. Here’s the…
