Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Charges of anti-Muslim teachings have spread beyond FBI training sessions, reports Wired.com. The tech magazine’s national security blog Danger Room has obtained a power point presentation made by an intelligence analyst working for the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Pennsylvania warning of a “civilizational jihad” waged in the U.S. by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The chief spokesman for the FBI tells USA Today that he did not try to shape the outcome of the upcoming movie on J. Edgar Hoover, which is supposed to portray the legendary director as being gay. The film is set to be released next month. Spokesman Mike Kortan, an…
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Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over ATF’s Operation and Fast and Furious is roaring once again. The latest: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the House Judiciary, asked President Obama on Tuesday to appoint a special counsel to investigate Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. as to what and when he knew about the operation, the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The notorious Underwear Bomber’s bomb may never have exploded, but apparently he did Tuesday morning in the opening of his federal trial in Detroit when he yelled out “Anwar is alive.” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab outburst was in reference to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric killed by US forces in Yemen last…
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Another person close to former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has fallen. Longtime fundraiser for the “hip hop mayor” Emma Bell pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit to tax evasion, admitting that she received more than half a million dollars from various campaign fundraisers and never reported the money to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency pleaded guilty Monday to lying in a civil case about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Texas, who worked in the EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Dallas, pleaded guilty in federal…
