Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of killing a New York mom and her toddler execution-style in 2010 is the latest fugitive to be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, CNN reports. The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for the arrest of Juan Elias Garcia, whom the FBI refers to as an…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Separate corruption investigations led to the arrests of two public officials in North Carolina and California and to the raid of the office of a New York state senator, the Washington Post reports. Hundreds of federal agents descended on offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, arresting several people including state Democratic…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, the son-in-law of Usama bin Laden, and a senior member of al Qaeda, was convicted Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan on three counts, including conspiracy to kill Americans. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement: “This verdict is a major milestone in the government’s unrelenting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill of Idaho issued this order regarding FBI agent Rebekah Morse, who apparently lied under oath when she told the judge that she turned off her phone and wasn’t texting while on the witness stand. The texts had nothing to do with the case against Diversified…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Russian authorities warned the FBI in 2011 about one of the would-be Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Reuters reports. A congressional report to be released as early as this week is expected to show that Russian intelligence alerted the FBI to concerns in March 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Chechen brothers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did a CIA tip lead to Neslon Mandela’s 1962 arrest and subsequent 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa? A Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ryan Shapiro, filed suit Tuesday against the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency for failing to turn over records with a Freedom of Information…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama selected Karl Remon Thompson to head the once-obscure but powerful Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. The New York Times reports that the person in charge of the position is responsible for critical legal policy disputes in the war against Al Qaeda. The Office of Legal Counsel issues…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent interviewing Ibragim Todashev shot the Chechen man six times in the body and once in the head after a sudden altercation in his Florida apartment, ABC News reports, citing an autopsy report. The 27-year-old, who was an associate of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was being questioned about…
