By Allan Lengel For AOL News When he announced the charges in late 2008, Chicago’s U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, came at Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with all the bravado of Eliot Ness going after Al Capone in the movie “The Untouchables.” He told a throng of reporters that Blagojevich had embarked on a “corruption crime…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The third time worked for federal prosecutors. After bumping up against two mistrials because of hung juries, federal prosecutors on Friday convicted Hal Turner, a racist internet radio talk show host and blogger, in Brooklyn U.S. District Court of threatening to assault and murder three U.S. Court of Appeals judges in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas J. Harrington was named to the number three spot at the FBI, replacing Timothy P. Murphy, who moved up to the number two spot, the FBI announced Friday. Up until now, Harrington was the FBI’s number four person, serving as the executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, the FBI’s number two person John Pistole, who now heads up the Transportation Security Administration, is making some changes. The Federal Diary column at the Washington Post reports that Pistole is considering creating a small corps of TSA officers that would have law enforcement status. Currently, screeners…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — More state and local law enforcement officers are getting access to sensitive information about terrorism from the federal government, USA Today reports. The paper reported that the number of top-secret clearances from the FBI for local and state cops has been the highest since Sept. 11, 2001. “Clearances granted…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors in Ohio are taking the unusual step and seeking the federal death penalty against a convicted drug dealer accused of setting off one of the deadliest fires in Cleveland’s history, according to the Associated Press. Federal authorities are taking aim at Antun Lewis, 26, who is accused of breaking…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com A new threat could be crawling across the nation, clad in diapers: Terror babies. Seriously? Well, yes seriously if you ask some Texas Republican members of Congress who cite former FBI agents, according to Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 show on CNN. Nonsense, if you ask a former high ranking FBI official,…
