By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade in Detroit announced Thursday that she’s launched an internal inquiry into “recent disclosures of information to the press regarding federal public corruption investigations.’ McQuade asked investigating agencies to conduct similar internal inquiries, according to a press release issued by her office. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The head of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will head off to Rhode Island on Friday to assess the devastating damage from the floods, the Associated Press reported. The floods have been the worst the state has seen in 200 years. “I hope that it will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Actor Leonardo DiCaprio could end up playing FBI Dir. J. Edgar Hoover in a film to be directed by Clinton Eastwood. Mike Fleming of the website Deadline New York is reporting that “talks with Leo are just getting underway, but I’m told that DiCaprio will play the lead role…
Assistant U.S. Attorney Says Hutaree Member Shot Cat to Prepare for Attack (Detroit News) Hutaree Militia Good Ole Boys or Dangerous Killers? (Detroit Free Press)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the government illegally wiretapped phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers without a search warrant, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker found the plaintiffs provided evidence to show “they were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com During his colorful career with ATF, which spanned more than three decades, James Cavanaugh found himself in the thick of some of nation’s biggest cases: The D.C. sniper murders, the Unabomber, white supremacist Eric Rudolph, church burnings and the deadly shootout at the Branch Davidian in Waco, Tex. involving leader David…
There’s a lot of commerce that flows through the bustling docks of Baltimore. And there’s a lot of shenanigans as well. Baltimore City Paper investigative reporter Van Smith takes a look at some of the questionable activity the feds are probing. By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-DEA Agent Richard Horn may have been quite happy when the government agreed to pay him $3 million late last year to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed the CIA spied on him and illegally wiretapped his conversations while he was stationed in Burma in 1993. But U.S….
