Ex-CIA Officer Defends Waterboarding

  OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Retiring FBI Agent took Creative Approach (Police One) FBI, Local Police Search for Bloodstains, Other Traces in Panama Hostel Where Woman Vanished (Washington Post) Chaperones Included in New Secret Service Conduct Rules (Fox News) Data Harvesting at Google Not a Rogue Act, Report Finds (NY Times) FDA May Let Patients…

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Taiwanese Pair Held for Alleged Drug and Arms Smuggling

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com What first looks like a routine drug bust seems to have evolved into international arms smuggling charges. The FBI is alleging that Taiwanese nationals Hui Sheng-shen, 45, and Huan Ling-chang, 41, known as “Charlie” and “Alice”, were trying to acquire military spy drones, E-2C Hawkeye surveillance airplanes and stealth technology relating to…

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FBI Move to $150M New Chelsea, Mass. HQ in Limbo

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Are sour grapes delaying construction of the FBI’s new $150 million regional headquarters in Chelsea, Massachusetts? Slated to begin construction late last year (never happened) bid-winning developer Emerald Corporate Center LLC, a division of ACS Development Corp. is facing a lawsuit from losing-bidder Boston Harbor Development Partners, an arm of Pappas Enterprises…

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5 Gambino Gangsters Plead Guilty to Laundry List of Dirty Deeds

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault, extortion, murder? Just another day-in-the-life of a Gambino mobster. Five Gambino wise guys pled guilty this week to a range of nefarious charges, announced Preet Bharara, NY U.S Attorney in Manhattan. Working as “soldiers” and “associates” of the Gambino crime family, Vincenzo Frogiero, Todd Labarca, John Brancaccio, Christopher…

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Feds Urge Locals to Stay Alert

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST “Joke” to “Hijack Plane, Kill Obama” Gets Utah Man in Trouble (Reuters) Google Rebuffs FCC Over ‘Wi-Spy’ Flap (Politico) SOCA, FBI Close 36 Credit Card Fraud Sites (Wall Street Journal) Six Charged in Financing-Fraud Case (Wall Street Journal) The…

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Senators Gone Wild?

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Senators gone Wild? Hardly, says Arkansas U.S. Senator Mark Pryor. Prior told the Associated Press that on Wednesday that he’s asked the FBI to investigate who set up a bogus online auction for an internship in his D.C. office. Interestingly, thefounder of “Girls Gone Wild” videos says he was the winning…

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