By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday found himself defending the handling of the Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit — this time before a Congressional committee. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., told Mueller he would have preferred that a team of interrogation experts had been brought to Detroit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The party-crashing Salahis — who are apparently “so yesterday” — are still in the crosshairs of federal authorities. Ben Friedman, a spokesman U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, said Wednesday that the couple is still under investigation and no decision has been made whether to charge them criminally for crashing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Coleman Headley, charged in Chicago with playing a role in the 2008 Mumbai, India bombings that killed about 170 people, is expected to plead guilty Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Tribune reported that he has been cooperating since his arrest in October. His attorney would not comment to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fate of the once-touted virtual fence designed to protect the Southwest border along Mexico is in doubt. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she was freezing additional funding and work on the uncompleted virtual fence that was supposed to stretch across 2,000 miles of border. She…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The FBI said Tuesday night that it had not ruled out the possibility that three people with ties to the U.S. consulate were murdered Saturday in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez as a result of a mistake in identity. But special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder made a little prediction during his testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday: We don’t have to bother preparing for a trial for Osama bin Laden; he’ll never be captured alive, according to the Associated Press. In what the AP described as “testy exchanges with House Republicans”…
Chris Battle, a former Congressional aide, also worked as Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Homeland Secuirty, chief of staff for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the DEA. He is currently vice president of the Adfero Group. By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON —…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Brazilian housekeeper who was an illegal immigrant, and wore a wire, is expected to testify in a federal trial against her former boss, an ex-top official in Boston for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Boston Globe reported. Lorraine Henderson, who has been suspended without pay from her job…
