By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Surely John Nicholas Coors thought it was a good idea to plant a bomb in a car for an $8,000 fee. Only problem was that it really wasn’t a good idea. The person offering the cash was actually an undercover FBI agent. On Monday, Coors, of Brandenton, Fla., pleaded guilty in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even the FBI director doesn’t get out of reporting for jury duty. Director Robert S. Mueller III showed up Monday for jury duty at D.C. Superior Court, the city’s criminal court, the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reported. Mueller, who showed up with an “ear-pieced security guy in tow”,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI, which can be very sensitive about its image, is taking on the ever-popular Wikipedia. The issue? The FBI seal. The New York Times reports that the bureau sent off a letter to Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia, demanding that it remove the FBI seal from…
Ex- senators Bob Graham, a Democrat from Florida, and Jim Talent, a Republican from Missouri, served as the chair and vice chair of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. By Bob Graham and Jim Talent Washington Post Op-Ed Page The two of us — at the request…
