By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and the White House are floating the idea of legislation that would create a new exception to the Miranda rule for suspected terrorists. It’s not as outrageous as Sen. Joe Lieberman’s proposal that accused terrorists be stripped of their U.S. citizenship, but…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News As Internet headlines swirl about an Egyptian-American botany professor who was detained in Cairo today for carrying guns and ammunition in his luggage, keep one thing in mind: Americans bring guns to the airport all the time. Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s not. The Transportation Security Administration says…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-federal prosecutor turned defense attorney is accusing the FBI of improperly taping conversations of a Detroit journalist and fabricating documents by describing him as an “unknown male.”, according to the Detroit News. The defense attorney Richard Convertino, in a court filing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, claimed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Demarest, the head of New York FBI, who had been under internal investigation in connection with an affair he’d had with a supervisor in his office, will become the new Assistant Director of the International Operations Division at headquarters in Washington, ticklethewire.com has learned. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Frank Scafidi, a popular figure in the FBI who was known for his keen sense of humor, is running a write-in campaign for Sacramento County Sheriff. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Scafidi, 58, who is retired from the FBI, has a campaign staff made up of his family and a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is investigating the theft of nearly two dozen weapons from the shooting range of a suburban Chicago police department, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. The weapons stolen from the Harvey Police Department included handguns and MP5 and AR-15 assault weapons, the Trib reported. They were reported stolen from a trailer…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Pakistani investigators say there is no evidence so far that the New York car bomber Faisal Shahzad was carrying out the bombing on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban, contrary to American claims, the Guardian newspaper of London. The London paper quoted an unnamed Pakistani security official with knowledge of the investigation…
