Update: Authorities identified the man as Amine El Khalifi, 29, of Alexandria, Va., an immigrant from Morocco who was illegally in the U.S. By Mike Levine Fox News Authorities have arrested a man allegedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide attack on one of the nation’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that presidential hopeful Rick Santorum wants what Mitt Romney already has? Apparently, so. ABC and Fox news report that Santorum has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for Secret Service Protection, USA Today reports. Romney is currently the only GOP candidate who has the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anti-terrorism training materials used by the FBI could be changing. The Religion News Service reports that the FBI said it is willing to consider a proposal from a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups to create a committee to review materials. The FBI recently removed some materials from training after they…
By Mariano Castillo CNN Mexico has landed some hard punches against the drug cartels that have stirred violence in parts of the country — at least on paper. In 2011, against just the notorious Zetas cartel, Mexico ended the reign of 16 leaders who ran cartel operations at the state or national level. Thugs with…
Update: 12 p.m. Friday: The Los Angeles Times reported that all three ICE agents were supervisors, but the gunman was lower ranking. KTLA TV reported that the gunman opened fire during his disciplinary hearing. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One ICE agent was killed and another wounded in a bizarre shootout among agents at a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– In a federal courtroom in downtown Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man better known as the “Underwear Bomber”, was sentenced Thursday afternoon to life in prison for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009. Rail thin and clad in a white t-shirt and beige…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The feds in the Motown just keep digging a deeper and deeper hole for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex-mayor Detroit who was once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor.” The Detroit Free Press reports that Kilpatrick and longtime friend Bobby Ferguson were charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment with extortion involving…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legend of Watergate lives on. A book to be released next month, “Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat,” reports that Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting…
