By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A retired DEA agent was found dead Saturday morning in a secluded area of a park in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. in Bergen County , according to NewJersey.com. Preliminary reports indicated the cause of the death for retired agent Brian Collier, 53, was suicide, the website reported. The body was found in…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, serving 60 years for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI paid an organized crime figure to beat and intimidate people to extract information in his case. In all,…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s one secret the Secret Service would rather keep secret. ABC’s Jason Ryan reports that “a classified review of the United States Secret Service’s computer technology found that the agency’s computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Where are the missing emails from Bush lawyers blessing harsh interrogation tactics? Inquiring minds want to know. The Washington Post reports that senior Democrats and watchdog groups on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate the disappearance of what could be key emails. The paper reported that some are saying the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New Orleans political dynasty headed by disgraced ex-Congressman William Jefferson and his brother Mose Jefferson, the political operative, continues to crumble. The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that less than a month before trial, the ex-Congresman’s sister Betty Jefferson,70, a 4th District Assessor, and her daughter Angela Coleman, 53, pleaded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The retrial next week in Brooklyn of right wing web radio talk show host Hal Turner should get interesting. The National Journal reports that federal prosecutors plan this time to call as witnesses three Court of Appeals judges from the 7th Circuit in Chicago who were the targets of Turner’s venemous…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, regarded as the gold standard for U.S. Attorneys, plans to personally prosecute two men accused of being part of the 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India that killed 170 people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper reported that Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted only one case in Chicago…
