By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators probing the controversial “Fast and Furious” anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said Saturday. The investigators have asked the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Seldom is anything in the political process simple in Washington. In fact, the New York Times reports that extending FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III’s 10-year term for two more years — considered a slam dunk — may not go as smoothly as had hoped. The New York Times reports that…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page The Obama administration took a concrete step toward curbing the flow of semiautomatic weapons to Mexico last week when it adopted a new regulation mandating the reporting of multiple sales of long guns to federal authorities. Under the regulation, some 8,500 licensed gun shops in Arizona, California, New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you go hunting for big game — particularly dangerous targets — you better be prepared. You also better be a good aim. Screw up and it can cost you — particularly if it’s a lion or a tiger or some other creature that can devour you. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you go hunting for big game — particularly dangerous targets — you better be prepared. You also better be a good aim. Screw up and it can cost you — particularly if it’s a lion or a tiger or some other creature that can devour you. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man was indicted in Virginia on Thursday on charges of using the Internet to solicit Islamic extremists to commit terrorist acts on such targets as police stations and synagogues within the U.S. and posting bomb-making instructions. Emerson Winfield Begolly, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was indicted by a federal…
By Lisa Sweetingham LA Weekly William C. Rempel, who for 36 years worked as an investigative reporter and editor at the L.A. Times, has written the book At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel, which came out last month. The insider in question is Jorge Salcedo,…
