By Charlie Savage New York Times WASHINGTON — Within months after the Bush administration relaxed limits on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, the F.B.I. assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, a newly disclosed Justice Department document shows. In a vast majority of those cases,…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wr8YjpHW1A Here are some examples of the individuals and organizations selected to receive the award. An Arkansas woman who became a tireless advocate for the elderly after members of her family experienced nursing home abuse; An organization in Buffalo that provided resources and assistance to victims who came to light during an FBI human trafficking…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s off to prison for ex-FBI agent Carlos Ortiz Jr. who threatened to harm his estranged wife — an FBI analyst — and the head of the Dallas FBI. Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas on Friday sentenced Carlos, 49, to two years in prison after he pleaded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama is pleading ignorance about a controversial ATF operation that let gun traffickers pass on the goods so agents could track them to the higher levels of the Mexican cartels. The President, in an interview with Univision that he and Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. ever authorized the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department won a legal battle against one of its own. A D.C. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit by ex-Detroit federal prosecutor Richard Convertino against the Justice Department. The lawsuit alleged that the Justice leaked damaging information about an internal Justice probe into Convertino. U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Signs of Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film on J. Edgar Hoover should be popping up in Washington this weekend. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that the film will shoot scenes on Saturday and Sunday involving Leonardo DiCaprio, who will play the big guy, J. Edgar Hoover. That’s all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Like the JFK assassination, the mystery and the persistent questions about anthrax killings in 2001, won’t go away. The latest is a detailed article in the magazine WIRED, by Noah Shactman, who writes that scientists involved in helping the FBI crack the deadly mystery still have lingering doubts and questions about…
