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NY Times Editorial: Didn’t FBI Learn Anything from Whitey Bulger Case?
By The New York Times Editorial Page Cutting deals with criminal informants may, at times, be a necessary if unsavory part of law enforcement. But the benefits must outweigh the costs, and it is not clear the F.B.I.’s Boston office has mastered that balance. A police wiretap referred to in documents filed in a Boston…
FBI Informant Who Infiltrated KKK Dead at Age 94
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI informant Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, passed away this weekend near St. Augustine, Fla., at the age of 94, reports the International Business Times. Kennedy had been in hospice care at a nearby hospital. Kennedy, using the name of a deceased uncle and former klansman, gained membership…
Book Review: Chineses Spies, the FBI and Sex
By TARA McKELVEY New York Times In May 2004, the F.B.I. special agent James J. Smith found himself in an uncomfortable spot: he had to tell a federal judge about an affair he’d had with an informer, Katrina Leung, a San Marino, Calif., businesswoman with “jet-black hair,” while his wife and son were sitting in…
FBI Helps Hunt Ex-NBA Player Wanted for Murder
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended by the NBA in a gun incident in Washington in 2009, was not the most sought after player in the league. But now he feels more wanted — by the FBI that is. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is helping Atlanta and Los Angeles…
Feds Charge “Christian Warrior” With Firebombing Oregon Mosque
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There’s no shortage of hate. Take Cody Crawford, a self described Christian warrior. The 24-year-old Oregon man has been charged with a hate crime for a November firebombing of a Mosque in Corvallis, Ore., the Associated Press reports. Authorities allege that Crawford is a “potential major contributor” of DNA to a…
Ex-FBI Evidence Technician Gets 15 Months for Lying About Stealing About $80,000 in Evidence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI evidence technician in the agency’s Merrillville, Ind. office was sentenced Thursday in Hammond, Ind., to 15 months in prison for lying about stealing nearly $80,000 in evidence that she kept for herself instead of properly returning the cash as she claimed she did. Melissa L….
John Edward’s Attys Want to Delay Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lawyers for ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards have a lot reasons to want to delay Edwards’ trial October trial — or so they say. The Associated Press reports that lawyers filed a motion Wednesday asking for the delay so they could have more time to review 400,000 documents produced by prosecutors. Edwards…
With CIA help, NYPD Moves Covertly in Muslim Areas; Practice Raises Questions
By Adam Goldman Associated Press. In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room. The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing…