No question the judiciary is about the feel a shift. The question is: What impact will it have on federal law enforcement? By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The federal judiciary is on the verge of a major shift when President-elect Barack Obama’s nominees take control of several of the nation’s most…
Christina Korbe originally said she fired because she thought it was a home invasion. Court papers give a different story By Paula Reed Ward Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH — The federal government this afternoon charged Christina Korbe, the woman who fired the shot that killed FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks last month, with murder. The maximum…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – FBI Agent Mark T. Rossini, who became fodder for the New York gossip columns when he started dating actress Linda Fiorentino, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington to illegally accessing FBI computers to help rogue private eye Anthony Pellicano during his Los Angles trial on wiretapping and…
An angry ex-federal prosecutor wants to know who in the government leaked damaging information about him. And he wants a reporter to tell him who talked. The reporter is refusing. The drama continues. By Joe Swickard Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter declined under oath this afternoon to reveal confidential…
The prosecutor meeting with victims’ families sends a message that Iraqi lives matter. By KATHERINE ZOEPF and ATHEER KAKAN New York Times BAGHDAD –An American prosecutor working on the case against five Blackwater security guards indicted in connection with a 2007 shooting in Baghdad has arrived in Iraq and will be meeting with victims’ families…
By Mary Jacoby ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The famously leak-proof Barack Obama operation hasn’t said much about its plans for the Justice Department. But one thing’s clear: the controversial Office of Legal Counsel notorious for issuing what critics dubbed the “Torture Opinion” — the sanctioning of extreme interrogation techniques — is going to come under some…
The fascination with ex-FBI agent John Connolly, convicted in a mob murder, continues. Newsweek visited him in a Miami jail to get his take on his conviction in a mob murder. By Suzanne Smalley and Evan Thomas Newsweek For many years, John Connolly was the FBI’s most effective Mafia investigator in Boston. He has a…
