By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A yet to be released Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported. The paper reported that the FBI illegally collected the records by “by invoking terrorism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It seemed refreshing when the Obama administration released a report on the the intelligence community’s failure to connect the dots that could have prevented the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Detroit bound plane. But the New York Times reports that there “were far more warning signs than the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s theory about bullets sounded downright impressive at the time. That’s no longer the case. Just recently, three murder convictions were overturned because of the agency’s flawed science, the Associated Press reported. The flap centers around the FBI’s now “discredited theory that bullets found at a crime scene…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Terrorist groups in recent times have increasingly turned to drug trafficking to finance operations, and the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan is responding. The New York Times is reporting that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is merging the office’s international drug trafficking and terrorism units because he “wants to focus more on extremist…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation requiring the FBI to release more records relating to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Boston Globe is reporting. The bill would require that all the files be “located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to…
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where…
The use of FBI informants in mosques is causing a lot of tension around the country between Muslims and the FBI. Here’s one of those instances. BY NIRAJ WARIKOO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER DETROIT — He called himself Jabril. Two years ago, a white man who claimed he was an ex-con and convert to Islam…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We haven’t heard the last of mobster John Gotti Jr. The New York Daily News reports that Gotti wants to write on true crime about his experiences and others. “I want to try my hand at writing. I want to write about facts – possibly true crime,” The Daily News quoted…
