By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Seeking the public’s help, the FBI in Albuquerque has released hundreds of images of items collected during the investigation of suspected serial killer David Parker Ray. Ray died in 2002 while serving more than 223-years in a state prison in connection with the kidnapping of two women who said he sexually…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents spent more than two years investigating the late Rep. John Murtha, moving to expand their ongoing investigation into a full public corruption probe just months before he passed, reports the Washington Post. Investigators were looking into whether the Pennsylvania Democrat was using his positions as defense appropriations chairman-a position…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After much talk, an FBI subcommittee made recommendations Tuesday to update the definition of rape for the first time in 80 years. The recommendations came out of a meeting in Baltimore by a subcommittee of law enforcement officials and will head next to an advisory panel, reports the Baltimore Sun. The advisory panel…
Salam Al-Marayati is president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. By Salam Al-Marayati Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page We in the Muslim American community have been battling the corrupt and bankrupt ideas of cults such as Al Qaeda. Now it seems we also have to battle pseudo-experts in the FBI and the Department of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In Indiana, in the heart of the Midwest, a Chinese national working for two major U.S. companies pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing trade secrets about food products and pesticides and giving them to people in China and Germany, the Justice Department announced. It marked the first time ever that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger? A letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III seems to suggest so. If you recall, the Boston FBI caught hell for letting Bulger run wild and commit crimes while he acted as informant and snitched on his rivals back in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Speaking anonymously to the Washington Post, several attorneys said dozens of career antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department say they are likely to quit if the department goes ahead with plans to close four regional offices. Plans were announced earlier this month to close offices in the antitrust division in Atlanta,…
