By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The nationwide hunt for a transient suspected of bombing a Santa Monica, Calif. synagogue last week ended Monday night with his arrest in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the FBI said. The FBI said a citizen tip resulted in the arrest of Ron Hirsch, who had taken a Greyhound bus on the day…
By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — David Frum rightly skewered Republicans for saying the Obama administration isn’t doing enough to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs and guns into the country while proposing a $600 million haircut for Customs and Border Control in the 2012 budget. But you have to wonder whether today’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — For roughly 30 years, the FBI kept files on tips and rumors suggesting Adolph Hitler had faked his suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945 and was hiding somewhere around the world, according to FBI documents available on the agency’s website. In one of the many FBI memos, FBI…
By Anne-Marie O’Connor and William Booth The Washington Post SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico — On a sunny afternoon last week, when the streets of this mountain mining city were filled with schoolchildren and parents hurrying home from work, gunmen entered a tiny apartment and started firing methodically. The assassins killed everyone: the family matriarch and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Back in the late 1940s, FBI J. Edgar Hoover had more than communists on his mind. An FBI memo shows on April 4, 1949, FBI agents in Utah sent an “urgent” cable to the Hoover saying an Army guard at the Ogden Supply Depot, a Logan policeman and a Utah Highway…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It ain’t exactly the crime of the century. In fact, everyone from grandmas to teens do it. In this case it was the Indianapolis U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett who was busted for speeding. And he apparently felt he needed to publicly apologize for his law breaking ways. The IndyChannel.com reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley on Friday expressed concerns that ATF agents are possibly being encouraged not to fully cooperate with Congressional inquiries into a controversial ATF gun-walking program. In a press release issued Friday, Grassley said his concerns surfaced after documents released by AFT through the Freedom of Information Act…
