By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was bad news for ex-FBI agent Adrian Busby of the New York Division. A federal jury in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday convicted Busby, 37, of lying to protect a married female confidential source he was having an affair with. “In roughly three hours, Adrian Busby was found guilty by…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A wave of prisoners could be released this week as a result of a change in sentencing for crack cocaine violations. The Associated Press reports that nearly 2,000 federal prisoners will be eligible for early release Tuesday as a result of a bill signed into law by President Obama last year that…
By Carrie Johnson NPR WASHINGTON — A top political appointee in the Obama Justice Department says he made a “mistake” when he didn’t flag questionable tactics used by federal agents in a gun-trafficking case for his superiors last year. Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, told NPR he found…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When Hasan M. Elahi landed in Detroit, Mich., and walked into the country on June 19, 2002, a customs official asked that Elahi follow him to an Immigration and Naturalization Services office at the airport. That incident initiated a period of “questioning went on for the next six months and ended…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The remains of a suicide bomber in Somalia are being tested by the FBI. Some believe the bomber may be one of at least 21 young Somali-American men that in recent years have left Minneapolis to join al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group, reports the Associated Press. If tests confirm the deceased…
Michael P. Kortan is the assistant director of Public Affairs for the FBI at headquarters in Washington. By Michael Kortan N.Y. Times Letter to the Editor WASHINGTON — I take issue with several points in your Oct. 18 editorial “Who Mailed the Anthrax Letters?” First, the National Academy of Sciences report concluded that the anthrax…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Maureen Stevens’ legal battle with the feds over the anthrax death of her husband seems to be over. Reuters reports that the widow of the deceased Florida tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens — one of five people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S. — has reached a settlement…
By The Examiner Editorial Page It’s not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration’s lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama’s Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the…
