By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After all the unnecessary political grandstanding, the administration is doing what it probably would have done anyways in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing incident. The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, one of Washington’s premier reporters, writes that the Justice Department and FBI will “consult with the intelligence community…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In recent years, the spotlight has turned to the violent Mexican drug cartels shipping drugs into the U.S. But on Friday, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales in Dallas announced the indictment of 25 suspected members of a Colombian drug cartel that moved massive amounts of cocaine into the U.S. through Mexico…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-head of the Miami DEA office Tom Raffanello got an early Valentines Day gift from an unlikely person: a federal judge. In a surprise move, U.S. District Judge Richard Goldberg on Friday, in the midst of jury deliberations, ordered the acquittal of Raffanello, who was accused of obstructing an SEC…
By Allan Lengel For Aol News WASHINGTON — From one vantage point, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Jay Dobyns still worries about the Hells Angels coming after him. From another, it’s his employer he’s more concerned about. Dobyns infiltrated the Hells Angels from 2001 to 2003 in Arizona and wrote a New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — You might not be wrong if you thought the administration is totally confused as to where to prosecute suspected mastermind of 9/11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his co-defendants. The Washington Post now reports that President Obama has decided “to insert himself into the debate” after he had…
Ali Soufan was an FBI special agent from 1997 to 2005. By ALI H. SOUFAN New York Times Op-Ed SINCE Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York announced that he no longer favored trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind, in a Manhattan federal court because of logistical concerns, the Obama administration has come under…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the latest complications in airport security. The Detroit Free Press reported that a body of Islamic scholars known as the Figh Council of North America has issued a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from passing through airport body scanners. The paper reported that the ruling, known as a…
