By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com NO ONE in Mexico appears safe from the violence that continues to strangle that country. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another was wounded Tuesday while driving through northern Mexico, the Associated Press reported. The two were assigned to the ICE attache office in Mexico City. AP…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I have mixed feelings about a ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. The court rescinded an $8.5 million judgment handed down two years ago against the government in the 1982 murders of two people by James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston mobster who was an FBI…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — A report released Tuesday on the scientific methods used to investigate the deadly anthrax attacks disputes a key conclusion by the FBI — and has triggered calls for an independent review of the entire case. Investigators have concluded that government scientist Bruce Ivins mailed anthrax-laden letters to…
By Susan Whitall The Detroit News DETROIT — As a thriller author, Paul Lindsay doesn’t have to burn hours of time interviewing FBI agents or homicide detectives to get it right. As Lindsay puts it, “I’ve got all my research down.” That’s because the author of “The Bricklayer” and his latest thriller, “Agent X” (both…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have released an admitted terrorist after serving 4 1/2 years because of his cooperation, the New York NBC local affiliate reported. The station reports that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara confirmed that Mohammed Junaid Babar is free, but declined to say more. A federal judge officially released him in December….
By David Hinckley New York Daily News This spinoff from “Criminal Minds” illustrates the danger of a television network getting too good at something. CBS has done so well with “police procedurals” – shows that set up a crime and walk the viewer through to its solution – that the network seems to think we…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Tan Nguyen represents the ugliest of ugly in politics. The 35-year-old Vietnamese immigrant and former Republican California congressional candidate was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for lying to investigators about a letter sent to Latino voters during his 2006 campaign against a Latino, Democratic incumbent. The…
