By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Darrien Hatchcock essentially wanted a couple hotel rooms for free. Now he’s getting free room and board, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers. The 46-year-old from Terrell, Tex., was sentenced in Dallas on Monday to two years in prison for impersonating a U.S. Marshal and demanding that a hotel give him two…
By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — Which is it now — imminent terrorist threat, or no threat? Certain or uncertain? Only last month U.S. intelligence officials were saying the Nigerian underwear bomber slipped through their nets because they didn’t think al Qaeda could or would mount another attack here. Yesterday, they warned that a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to NYPD cop Roosevelt Green: Next time get over to the Sports Authority and buy yourself a nice warm up suit and sneakers: It will be a lot less trouble and a whole lot cheaper. Federal wire intercepts captured conversations in which Green, a sergeant in NYPD, asked a major…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has launched a routine investigation into the fatal FBI shooting in Michigan of a Muslim imam in October, the Detroit News reported. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who had asked the Justice Department to probe the matter, announced the news at…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The allegation came on a tissue. The Associated Press is reporting that the five Washington, D.C. area men suspected of terrorism, who are being held in Pakistan, scribbled allegations on a tissue that they were subjected to electric shocks and other torture by the FBI and Pakistani police. The AP reported…
