By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David C. Kernell, the son of a Tennessee state lawmaker, was sentence Friday to one year and one day in prison for hacking into Sarah Palin’s email during the 2008 presidential campaign, the Justice Department said. Kernell, 23, was convicted in April after a week-long trial on one count of misdemeanor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 600-page, never-released Justice Department report concludes that the American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the U.S. for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, the New York Times reports. “It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The defense begins its case Monday in the trial of FBI agent Hal Neilson, who is accused of hiding his interest in a building in Oxford, Miss., that housed the FBI office he headed up, and then lying about it. The prosecution rested its case, using recordings and documents to show…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bidders came bidding Saturday in New York for the belongings of swindler Bernie Madoff, who seems to have the public appeal of a mobster. The U.S. Marshals Service, using an auction house, netted more than $2 million for Madoff’s and his wife Ruth’s belongings, which included Ruth’s 10.5 carat diamond engagement…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db2EDCb-zC0 WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Growing Backlash Against TSA Body Scanners and Pat Downs (CNN) New Searches Too Personal for Some Travelers (Washington Post) Planner of 9/11 Attacks Might Not Face Trial (Washington Post)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI on Friday brought in a plumber to try and keep some evidence from going down the toilet. According to the Washington Post and an FBI affidavit, the FBI summoned the plumber after agents arrested Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie Friday on charges…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman gets a bump up at FBI headquarters from associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch to executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch. “Janet brings a tremendous amount of expertise in human resources and leadership to this position,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has been asked to prepare a profile of the killer or killers of two girls who were found shot to death in 2008 near a dirt road outside of Weleetka in eastern Oklahoma, The Oklahoman reported. The paper reported that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which made the…
