By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Why Detroit? The Associated Press reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the “underwear bomber”, thought about blowing up a plane above Houston or Chicago on Christmas day in 2009, but the ticket to Detroit was cheaper. The AP reported that he considered Houston, where he had gone to school….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With modern technology comes modern headaches for law enforcement. The El Paso Times reports that an FBI agent testified in federal court in El Paso on Wednesday that the violent Barrio Azteca gang leaders in prison gave orders to street soldiers by cell phone. FBI agent Samantha Mikeska said the cell…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The game keeps changing. In a new twist, Border Patrol agents busted 13 illegal immigrants in California who were wearing U.S. Marines uniforms and driving in a fake military van, FOX News reported. The station reported that the illegal immigrants were nabbed at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex- New York FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, who beat a murder wrap in 2007 after being accused of advising a mob informant to kill four turncoats, is going after the local Brooklyn prosecutors who unsuccessfully went after him, according to the New York Daily News. In his new book “We’re Going…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more on the anthrax controversy. A court-ordered report by the Expert Behavorial Analysis Panel concluded the U.S. Army could have “anticipated” and “prevented” the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, and that a review of psychiatric records of suspect Bruce Ivins “does support the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)determination that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors aren’t scoring any points with a federal judge in a bingo vote-buying case in Montgomery, Ala. The Birmingham News reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel Jr. on Tuesday threatened to sanction fed prosecutors for failing to turn over documents relating to FBI wiretaps. He ordered the government to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — wants to figure out why ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was never prosecuted federally. CREW filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in D.C. against the Justice Department for failing to release records of the…
