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March 2, 2011

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Trial Set for March 16 for Man Who Made Terrorist Threats on Facebook

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Trial begins later this month for a Virginia man who wrote on Facebook that he planned to blow up the D.C. area subway system, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper’s Bruce Alpert reports that the trial against Awais Younis,25, will only deal with the threats he made against…

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Ex-Justice Dept. Analyst Judith Socolov Who was Convicted of Espionage Dies at Age 88

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Judith Socolov, a former Justice Department political analyst in the 1940s, who fell in love with a Soviet agent and was convicted of espionage, died over the weekend in Manhattan, the New York Times reported. She was 88. Judith Coplon, who later became Judith Socolov, was arrested by the FBI in…

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Fla. FBI Agent and Cops on Trial for Mortgage Fraud

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial began Tuesday in Ft. Lauderdale federal court for an FBI agent along with four local Florida cops and a former officer, who face charges of mortgage fraud involving the purchase of properties in Broward and Palm Beach counties, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported. The paper reported that the six…

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TSA Worker Busted For Allegedly Helping Drug Dealers

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Minnetta Walker of the Transportation Security Administration lost her moral compass — or perhaps she never had one, authorities allege. The TSA behavioral detection officer at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, who is supposed to walk around and look for suspicious behavior, was arrested Tuesday and charged with providing info to drug…

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Ex-FBI Agent Jody Weis Steps Down as Chicago’s Top Cop

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Is Chicago Fed Judge Going too Far to Protect Jurors?

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imagine taxpayers spending millions of dollars collectively trying an Illinois governor, and in the end, the case all but collapses. The jurors only convict on one of 24 counts . They end up deadlocked on the rest. Imagine that. Yes,it’s not too hard, considering it happened in the first trial of…

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Private U.S. Spies Aid FBI in Afghan Probe

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By Mark Mazzetti New York Times WASHINGTON — Not long after the Pentagon severed its relationship with a private spy network operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the F.B.I. quietly began tapping the same group to help investigate the killing of 10 medical aid workers in northern Afghanistan, according to American officials and private contractors. The…

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