By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An off-duty FBI agent shot and wounded a 27-year-old man in Honululu on Sunday around 1 p.m., the Honolulu Advertiser reported. The man was out on bail after posing as a cop on a college campus. The paper reported that Martin Boegel, 27, of Makiki, was brandishing a gun outside his…
Attorney General Holder’s approval rating dropped about as quickly as the Dow Jones did last Thursday when he told Congress in March of this year that he predicted that “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden.” Perhaps recognizing that his inartful comment only served to confuse his supporters and…
Steven Levin was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland and North Carolina for 10 years before forming a law firm Levin & Gallagher. He had previously served on active duty for seven years in the United States Army as a defense counsel, an appellate attorney and a trial attorney. He is the co-author of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The failed N.Y. car bomber Faisal Shahzad was told by the Pakistani Taliban to pay cash for everything to avoid leaving a trail, the Los Angles Times is reporting. “He paid cash for his gun and he paid cash for the van he acquired,” a source told the Times. “He was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. holder hit the Sunday morning talk show circuit, saying he favors a change in the way Miranda warnings are issued to terror suspects so interrogators have more flexibility. “I think we have to think about perhaps modifying the rules that interrogators have and some how coming…
By Jeff Stein SpyTalk WASHINGTON — Poor ATF: It don’t get no respect. NYPD’s Ray Kelly, Attorney General Holder and DHS honcho Janet Napolitano all heaped praise on themselves and each other for their fabulous work in the Times Square bomb case. But the ATF? Nada. Out of sight, out of mind, evidently, overlooked like…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4dk7hIQtI WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Lawyers for Hedge Fund Billionaire Wants FBI Wiretaps Tossed (NY Times) FBI Busts Suspected Pimp In Lawrence Taylor Case (Asheville Citizen-Times) FBI Team Arrives in Pakistan (Washington Post) A Quiet Night Until Agents Saw Faisal Shahzad’s Name On the List (LA Times) NY Cigarette Dealer Gets 10 Years in Fed…
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