By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has had talks about moving its aging headquarters to Maryland, but the tanking economy may have put any plans on hold, the Washington Post reported Sunday. A lawsuit filed by Greenbelt Ventures against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, says Metroland Developers was “secretly meeting with WMATA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No question the protracted drug war America talks so often about has taken its toll on lives and on urban, rural and suburban America. It’s also wreaked havoc along the Mexican border. But the Associated Press has written a story saying the war after 40 years is a failure…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise that the FBI kept files on Walter Cronkite, one of America’s most influential newsmen. Yahoo! News reported that it obtained FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act that show “Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When Joe-Shmoe forgets to file something like this, well, it’s understandable. Maybe. But when it’s the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan D. Bersin? “Unacceptable”, says Sen. Max Bauchus, according to the Washington Post. At issue is paperwork known as I-9 forms verifying that household workers can legally work in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Florida book publisher for convicted ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy claims the ref has threatened to hurt somebody if he doesn’t get money for his book, and has even invoked the name of the Gambino crime family to show he’s serious, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The tiff came to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Pakistani man linked to a militant group in his country has told authorities he acted as an accomplice to the failed New York car bomber Faisal Shahzad, the Washington Post is reporting. The Post reported that the man, arrested by Pakistani authorities, has provided an “independent stream” of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com About 500 federal, state and local police on Thursday converged on the town of Newburgh, about 50 miles north of New York City, to round up gang members of the Bloods and the Latin Kings, who authorities say have been responsible for a good chunk of crime and drug trafficking in…
