October 2011
Atty. Gen. Holder Fires Back About Fast and Furious: “My Testimony Was Truthful and Accurate”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. fired off a forceful letter to key Congressional members on Friday, calling allegations that he lied before Congress about his knowledge of ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious totally unfounded. “My testimony was truthful and accurate and I have been consistent on this point throughout,” Holder wrote…
As Release Date Nears, More is Being Released on the Movie “J. Edgar”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As the November release date of the controversial movie about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover nears, the studio is releasing more material on the matter. Recently, the studio released a trailer. And now a poster of the movie is circulating (to the right). The movie, which reportedly has a national release…
FBI Helps Recover Stolen Civil War Flag Missing for Almost 30 Years
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Missing for almost three decades, a civil-war battle flag stolen in the 1980s by a volunteer at the Memorial Hall Museum (Confederate Memorial Hall) of New Orleans, has been recovered, the FBI announced this week. The FBI said the Art Crime Team in the FBI Miami Division initially got some information and…
Column: Shame on the Justice Dept. for Screwing the Families in Murder Cases
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department can feel proud that an appeals court Thursday essentially upheld its right to screw the families whose relatives were allegedly murdered by Boston gangster James J. “Whitey’’ Bulger. Bulger was working as an FBI informant and running wild, and a Boston federal judge back in 2009 awarded…
Congress Grills FBI Director Mueller on Training About Islam
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST FBI Says Toddler Witnessed Triple Murder on Reservation (Reuters) FBI Says Fur Factory Fire Was Domestic Terrorism (AP) House Chairman Charges FBI With Stonewalling Awlaki Probe (Fox) Zeta Killers Kill 32 More in Mexico (AP) Feds Announce Calif. Pot Dispensary Crackdown (AP) Gun in Church; Court Will Decide (Wall Street Journal)…
Single and Hate Internet Dating? Accused Scammer Mitchell Gross Won’t Make You Feel Better
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For singles who have their doubts about Internet dating; Meet Mitchell Gross, aka fiction author Mitchell Graham. The feds in Atlanta on Thursday announced the indictment of the 61-year-old on charges of wire fraud and money laundering after he allegedly duped at least two women he met on a Jewish dating…
Forces Against Atty. Gen. Holder Building — at Least in Republican Ranks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The forces against Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. seem to be building some momentum — at least in the Republican ranks. The latest: Freshman Rep. Raúl Labrador(R-Idaho)on Thursday demanded that Holder resign, claiming he was lying when he testified before Congress about when he learned of ATF’s troubled Operation Fast and Furious….