By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The young man who will be forever known as the “Underwear Bomber” caught a little bit of break. The Detroit News reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who admitted trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day of 2009, was transferred Tuesday to a federal prison complex…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The conclusion in an independent report released Thursday on the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Steven is anything but surprising: The Prosecution screwed up big time. Talking Points Memo’s Ryan J. Reilly reports that the voluminous report concludes that the Justice Department prosecutors engaged in “systematic concealment”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The new head of the Houston DEA knows a thing or two about drug cartels. Javier Pena, whose new turf includes the Mexican border, helped hunt down the infamous Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Associated Press reports. In fact, AP reported that Pena has a photo of a Colombian…
By Craig Wall FOX Chicago News CHICAGO — Pam Davis said convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich has lost his sense of reality. “I feel a sense of vindication that justice has finally been served,” Davis said. “It’s taken more than eight years, but I do think truth prevailed.” It has been a long journey for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Technology is once again bumping up against law enforcement. PC Magazine is reporting that the FBI has issued a warrant to get Google to give it a Gmail account and password and other info so it can tap into the Android cell phone of an alleged pimp suspected of playing a…
