By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. is finding out just how fun it can be to head the Justice Department when some politicians want your head. The New York Times reported Thursday that Holder failed to notify the Senate last year during the conformation hearings that “he had signed several…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brian D. Lamkin, assistant director of the FBI Training Division in Quantico, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta office. Lamkin entered the FBI in February 1987 and was first assigned to the Norfolk Division. Three years later, he headed south to the Dallas Division,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Mir Aimal Kasi had earned a spot on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and Brad Garrett, a mild-mannered but dogged FBI agent out of Washington, wanted him badly. Kasi, a Pakistani, had stood outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., in 1993 and methodically opened fire,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In the Motor City, Spring is near and scandal is in the air. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, 64, the mother of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, the Detroit Free Press reported. She said Thursday that she is not the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Yemen officials have arrested an American with suspected ties to al Qaeda members, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The man was under FBI investigation in Delaware, the paper reported. Yemen authorities said that Sharif Mobley, who was raised in New Jersey and later lived in other east coast cities, was arrested and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It comes as no surprise that U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of New Orleans is in big big trouble. The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to impeach him, the Associated Press reported. The news service reported that lawmakers felt he avoided criminal charges only because the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants more time to prepare for his public corruption case that was set for June 3. His attorneys want the trial moved to November. The Chicago Tribune reports that his attorneys said they can’t properly prepare a defense in time “without knowing whether they have to defend…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s all pretty simple. The Mexican drug cartels have lots of money. And some federal law enforcement agents who patrol the Mexican border can’t resist the cash. Representatives from the FBI and Homeland Security testified before the subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee about the “rising corruption among…
