By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF has jumped in to investigate the mysterious car comb that seriously injured an attorney and his two children in Monroe, Mi., Tuesday night, the Detroit Free Press reported. The Free Press reported that the Volvo station wagon was traveling on East Elm Avenue, near the ramp to I-75, at 5:41…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The tension between effective law enforcement and personal privacy is always present to some degree, but has certainly intensified in the decade following 9/11. Now, a bipartisan group including former FBI and DEA leaders are calling for new safeguards to protect individuals’ personal privacy. The Constitution Project, a D.C.-based think tank,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversial Guantanamo Bay is still in the crosshairs of the administration. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday in a speech before the European Parliament that the administration hopes to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before the 2012 presidential elections, Politico reported. “We will be pressing for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What the heck is up with IHOP? Earlier this month, a deranged gunman walked into a Carson City, Nev. IHOP and opened fire. Now the Associated Press reports this week that FBI agents executed search warrants at six IHOP restaurants in northwest Ohio and one in Indiana. AP reported that the…
By PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON — Muffins: $16 apiece. Coffee: more than a dollar an ounce. Snacks: $32 per person. A report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general found excessive spending on food and beverages in an audit of 10 department conferences. Justice spent about $490,000 on food and beverages at the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com If a counternarcotics official from another nation profits from trafficking cocaine into the United States, but has a clean criminal record otherwise, should a judge go lenient at sentencing? That’s what Rene Sanabria is hoping. Sanabria headed a Bolivian drug intelligence unit, but was arrested earlier this year by the DEA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former V.P. Dick Cheney isn’t always known for his diplomacy or finesse. But Monday he was more careful than usual when it came to voicing his opinion. Usually he’s not so circumspect. But he was when asked about Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who prosecuted Cheney’s Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A decade later and it appears that al-Qaeda members are still trying to turn airplanes into deadly weapons. “Al-Qaida has been obsessed with airplanes, they continue to be obsessed with airplanes,” said Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI., according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “They want to use airplanes to kill…
