By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III headed out to California earlier this week, not to let his hair down, but to meet in Silicon Valley with top executives from several companies including Facebook and Google to discuss a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users, the New…
By Michael Gerson The Washington Post The closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and civilian trials for terrorists were more than policy changes proposed by Barack Obama as a presidential candidate. They were presented as a return to constitutional government – a dividing line from an uncivilized past. The indefinite detention of terrorists, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON — An investigation into dirty cops and untaxed cigarettes and liquor in Prince George’s County, a suburb of Washington, grew after some targets of the probe mentioned to an undercover FBI agent that County Executive Jack Johnson was open to taking bribes, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Johnson and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI Thursday morning arrested two people who worked for swindler Bernie Madoff. Joann Crupi was arrested at her home in Westfield, NJ and Annette Bongiorno was arrested at her home in Boca Raton, Fla., said Richard Kolko, spokesman for the FBI in New York. “Charges, in connection with the Madoff…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Justice Department policy during the Bush-era is about to get the boot. The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will issue a memo Thursday to U.S. Attorneys around the country saying that he’s overturning a policy which urged prosecutors to push defendants hammering out…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After nearly two years into his presidency, Barack Obama finds himself still whittling away at appointing U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals. On Wednesday, he nominated 7 U.S. Marshals and one U.S. Attorney. The nominees for Marshals included: Charles Edward Andrews for Southern District of Alabama; Darrell James Bell for Montana; William…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a surprise ending, a federal jury in New York on Wednesday acquitted the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court on all but one of 285 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings at U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam,…
The following was an email sent out to ACLU supporters. By Anthony D. Romero ACLU Director Planning to fly this holiday season? You’ve probably already braced yourself for long lines, delays and extra fees just to check your luggage. Unfortunately, you can also expect another hassle at the airport this year. 70 airports around the…
