By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In a surprise move, President Obama announced Thursday he is seeking a two-year extension for FBI director Robert S. Mueller. The move took many by surprise considering a search was underway for a replacement for Mueller whose 10-year term was coming to an end in September. “In his ten…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan outside a Washington hotel in 1981, will be getting more visits to his mother’s house in Virginia, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on Wednesday approved an unspecified number of extra visits for Hinckley, who is housed at St. Elizabeths…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston Globe editorial page took a little exception to Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani remark defending his nation by comparing the hunt for Osama bin Laden to the perennial search for the FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger — a mobster wanted for multiple murders and other charges, “If…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Leaders of the nation’s largest police organizations said they were briefed by the FBI after the killing of Osama bin Laden and told there appeared to be no immediate threats or active terrorist plots, USA Today reported. The paper reported that the briefing came after federal officials were warned…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Demjanjuk, the suspected Nazi death camp guard, was convicted in Munich on Thursday of helping force roughly 28,000 Jews to death during World War II, the New York Times reported. The 91-year-old retired American autoworker was then sentenced to five years in prison, but was released pending his appeal. His…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI may have thought Michael F. Mara looked grandfatherly when they dubbed the serial bank robber the “Grandad Bandit”. Wait til he gets out of prison. They may want to consider changing his nickname to the “Great Grandad Bandit.” Mara, 53, of Baton Rouge, La., was sentenced Wednesday in federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Az) wrote Thursday in a Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post that he opposed torture, and said it just isn’t true that waterboarding lead authorities to the trusted courier of the Osama bin Laden. “Much of this debate is a definitional one: whether any or all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Following an eight week trial, a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday morning convicted Raj Rajaratnam on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud crimes stemming from his role in the largest hedge fund insider trading scheme in history, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Rajartnam, just another symbol of much what is wrong…
