By Kathleen McChesney, Ph.D. FBI Executive Assistant Director (ret.) As Robert S. Mueller III completes the final year of his ten-year term as the Director of the FBI, President Barack Obama and the United States Senate will have the critically important responsibility of nominating and confirming his successor. This selection process should be devoid of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI first took interest in the late Sen. Paul Wellstone when he was arrested during an anti-Vietnam war protest in 1970, and years later investigated death threats against him as a liberal Democratic senator, according to Minnesota Public Radio, which obtained FBI files under a Freedom of Information request. MPR…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ORLANDO — A nostalgic Robert S. Mueller III addressed the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference (IACP) here on Monday for the last time as FBI director as he finishes up his 10 year term, which ends next fall. “My first IACP conference took place seven weeks after September…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Investigators are looking at an imprisoned serial killer and former FBI informant as a possible suspect in the 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Tom Wales, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Wales, 49, and a father of two, was sitting in front of his computer in the basement of his home…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Tennessee White Supremacist who planned to go on a killing spree of African-Americans and kill Barack Obama during his campaign for the presidency is off to prison for 14 years. Daniel Cowart, 22, of Bells, Tenn. was sentenced Friday in Tennessee after he pleaded guilty earlier in the year to…
By the Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Granting a request by the Obama administration, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether former Atty. Gen. John Aschroft can be sued by a U.S. citizen who says he was wrongly arrested as a material witness. Rather than reflexively protecting a former government official, the justices should…
By Zack Cohen ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Federal judges are considered among the elite in the judiciary world, appointed by the president for a lifetime, regarded as being beyond reproach. But in recent times there has been a crack in the almost king-like facade. One judge, G. Thomas Porteous of New Orleans, faces impeachment before the…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25qKkkecfHQ httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrS8gyVW3k WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Justice Dept.’s Handling of Black Panthers Voters Case Causes Deep Division (Washington Post) James F. Neil, Who Won Cases Against James Hoffa and Watergate Conspirators Dies at Age 81 (Washington Post)
