By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The message is clear: Even hatemongers have Constitutional rights. The Chicago Tribune reports that a federal judge has tossed out the conviction in Chicago of white supremacist William White who posted personal information on his website about a jury foreman who helped convict a fellow white supremacist in 2004. A jury…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds aren’t finished dealing with the February shootout in Elkins, W. Va., which resulted in the death of deputy U.S. Marshal Derek Hotsinpiller and the wounding of two other deputies. The suspect Charles Smith was also killed. On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in West Virginia announced charges against the…
By Josh Gerstein Politico Under President George W. Bush, the Justice Department considered and rejected criminal charges against the Council on American-Islamic Relations for alleged support of Hamas, a knowledgeable source told POLITICO Monday. The decision not to indict CAIR came in 2004 as prosecutors in Dallas were preparing to seek an indictment of the…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sixteen years ago today, America was served up one horrific surprise: The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City: 168 people died. It was shocker. At the time — April 19, 1995 – as a reporter at the Detroit News, I called around to federal law enforcement people,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sixteen years ago today, America was served up one horrific surprise: The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City: 168 people died. It was shocker. At the time — April 19, 1995 — as a reporter at the Detroit News, I called around to federal law enforcement people,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has jumped into the fray to try and help two Secret Service agents from being sued in a case linked to former vice president Dick Cheney. The Associated Press reports that the Department of Justice filed documents in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver siding…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The pretrial hearing was like a “weigh in” before the big boxing match, where both sides snipe at one another. A federal prosecutor on Monday called the very chatty ex-Ill. Gov Rod Blagojevich a ‘liar’ at a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune. And…
