By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say, no one in the Whitehouse including President Obama, Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod were involved in drug trafficking in Texas — methamphetamine to be exact. Nonetheless, a press release issued Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney in Texas seemed a bit curious: “Whitehouse, Texas Man Guilty of Drug Trafficking…
Jeffrey Hayworth Knox may look like an altar boy, but he’s gone up against some serious evil in the terrorism world and prevailed. William Rashbaum of the New York Times tells us about Knox. By William Rashbaum New York Times In March, the Justice Department released a lengthy list of its successful terrorism prosecutions since…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com JERUSALEM — Call it a case of very different worlds colliding. The top newspaper Haaretz here in Israel reports that Mexican authorities thwarted a plan by the Lebanese group Hezbollah to set up a network in Latin America and use Mexican Nationals with ties to Lebanon to go after Israel and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is cracking down on workers’ access to certain materials on the web. CBS New reports that the agency sent out an email on Friday saying that as of July 1 it was blocking workers from having computer access to websites with “controversial opinions” and other materials….
FBI agent Pete Cullen should have retired in 2006 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 57. But the FBI wanted to keep him around for his expertise. He ended up running the wire taps on ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is currently on trial. Last week, after getting extensions to stay, he finally retired…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Lamendella, a Chicago native and former assistant U.S. Attorney who became an expert in prosecuting mobsters, died at age 73, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper reported that Lamendella died in Evanston Hospital from complications resulting from a broken hip. Lamendella earned a law degree from John Marshall Law School,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Chicago, the big circus of the hour is the public corruption trial of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his co-defendant and brother Robert Blagojevich. And an interesting side show to the circus is the fact the two brothers don’t seem so buddy buddy these days, Associated Press reports. The two…
