By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sorry J.D. Salinger, you may have made a big splash with your words, but you weren’t worthy of an FBI file. The Associated Press reports that the FBI said it never opened up a file on Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye”, who died in January at age 91….
UPDATE: Mon.- 9 p.m. (EST) — ABC 4 News in Utah reports that the suspicious powder was not hazardous. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suspicious powder letter in a mail facility set off a series of events Monday at the Ogden, Utah IRS center. ABC 4 News in Utah and the Associated Press report that…
Protecting the U.S.- Mexican border has always been a challenge. And this this is only adding to the challenge. By Jeffrey Anderson The Washington Times WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants…
Thomas Penfield Jackson was a U.S. District Court judge in D.C. for 22 years before retiring in 2004. By Thomas Penfield Jackson Washington Post Column For reasons I have some difficulty appreciating, the city of New York has rejected Attorney General Eric Holder’s plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Manhattan. True, the trial will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The good news for ex-assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Bergrin is that he won’t be facing the death penalty. The Asbury Park Press in New Jersey reports that Atty. Gen. Eric Holder has decided not to seek the death penalty against the prominent defense attorney in his pending case in which he’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has interviewed New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes about a Canadian doctor accused of selling an unapproved drug known as Actovegin, an extract from calf’s blood used to speed healing, the Associated Press reported. Reyes said he was interviewed last week about Dr. Anthony Galea at the Mets spring…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some murder cases during the civil rights era aren’t likely to end up in court. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that “three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful.” The Post reports that…
By The New York Times Editorial Page The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a report that is supposed to clinch the case that a lone scientist mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001, terrorizing a country already traumatized by the 9/11 attacks. The agency cites voluminous circumstantial evidence that is largely persuasive, but its report leaves…
