By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An interesting thing happened on the way to the alter: An undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Hutaree militia in Michigan ended up signing the marriage certificate for the group’s leader using a bogus name, the website AnnArbor.com reported. The site reported, citing an FBI 302 report, that the undercover agent…
By John Shiffman Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Several weeks after 9/11, the senior FBI agent in Harrisburg, George Venizelos, received an alarming tip: A terrorist planned to ride an Amtrak train from Philadelphia to the state capital, carrying an atomic bomb. In response, Amtrak closed the rail line and began searching. Venizelos soon received another…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The bulldog-like mug of J. Edgar Hoover has long been synonymous with the FBI, a world-renowned law enforcement agency forever hyper-sensitive about its public image. Still, Hoover’s legend has taken its lumps over the years. Now comes the latest: an upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III hopped a plane to Arizona to deal with the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed a federal judge and seriously wounded a member of Congress. Sure, Mueller could have stayed back in Washington and gotten briefed regularly…
By Allan Lengel tickelthewire.com The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a statement in honor of Chief Judge John M. Roll, 63, who was shot and killed on Saturday in Tucson in a mass shooting that killed six and wounded 12 including Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The following is the statement:…
UPDATE: Sunday, 3 p.m. — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said at a press conference that he doesn’t believe a second person wanted for questioning is directly involved in the shooting. “It was an attack not only against dedicated public servants but against citizens, one being a child,” Mueller said. “This was an attack…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some criminal politicians are disgraceful right up to the end. Take former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson who was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison for taking $23,000 in bribes to help secure a liquor license for a nightclub and for legislation to grease the…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fh_HNt5l_8 WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Baltimore Cop Among Two Dead in Night Club Shooting (AP) Detroit Feds Recommend Life Sentences in Biker Case (Detroit News) Fed Judge Allows Limited Release of Escort Black Book (Detroit News) Incendiary Mailings Spread from Maryland to D.C. (Washington Post) U.S. Demands Info on WikiLeaks Twitter Account (AP) Atty. Gen….
