By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a surprise development, a woman who fatally shot Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 is set to enter a guilty plea in federal court Tuesday morning, court records show. U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry set the plea date for Christina Korbe just three days after he ordered the…
Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and legal counsel in the Minneapolis field office, wrote a “whistleblower” memo in May 2002 and testified to the Senate Judiciary on some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She retired in 2004 and is now a writer and speaker. By COLEEN ROWLEY Minneapolis Star-Tribune A secretive, unaccountable, post-9/11…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s certainly not the first government boondoggle and it certainly won’t be the last. Nonetheless, it appears it was waste of time and money. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday decided to cut off the ambitious, problem-plagued billion-dollar program SBInet to build a high-tech fence along the Arizona…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsvwR1DZ-o WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST 12 Suspects and 2 Soldiers Die in Shootout in Mexico (AP) 60 Minutes Posts 1975 Interview With Secret Service Agent in Kennedy Assassination Who Takes Blame (CBS)
William Coonce worked for the DEA for 29 years and was special agent in charge of the Detroit Division from 1987 to 1993. By William Coonce For ticklethewire.com TUCSON — Subsequent to my retirement from the DEA in 1993, I was hired by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, Arizona to be the Deputy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A reformed Brooklyn gangster claims in his book “Surviving the Mob” that he was recruited by a Gambino crime family capo in 1996 to rub out gangster John (Junior) Gotti over money, according to the website Gang Land News. Some have dismissed the claims as garbage, according to Gang Land News…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Brooklyn, a federal judge is getting some attention for siding more with a man convicted on child pornography charges than with federal prosecutors. The New York Times reports that U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein blew off prosecutor’s recommendation that defendant Pietro Polizzi, 57, of Queens get 11-14 years. On…
Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer, is a senior fellow in the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is “Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad.” By Bruce Riedel Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page Al Qaeda has just released the latest in its series of how-to guides…
