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Demjanjuk Attorney’s Accuse Justice Dept of Fraud for Withholding Key FBI Document
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The decades-long legal case against accused Nazi John Demjanjuk won’t go away. The Cleveland Jewish News is reporting that his defense attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion accusing the Justice Department of withholding evidence and fraud. At the key of accusations is a 1985 FBI memo questioning the authenticity of a…
FBI Plans to Contact Actor Jude Law About Murdoch Scandal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI probe into the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal could being going beyond the 9/11 victims in the U.S. The BBC reports that the FBI plans to contact the actor Jude Law following allegations that his phone was hacked during a visit to the U.S. The BBC reported that a…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Gets One Step Closer to 2-Year Extension
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III moved one step closer to extending his 10-year term two additional years. The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would clear the way for Mueller to stay on for two years. The bill must now go before the House, which is expected to give…
Secret Service and FBI Probing Racial Cartoon Faxed to White House and Congress Member
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some cartoons simply aren’t funny. The Secret Service and FBI are investigating who faxed a racially charged cartoon to the White House and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex), the Houston Chronicle reported. The cartoon depicted nooses and lynching posts, the paper reported. The headline included a racial epithet and the cartoon…
FBI Contacts NYPD About Murdoch Scandal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The signs of spillage from the Rupert Murdoch scandal are popping up in New York City. The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett and Sean Gardner report that the FBI has contacted the New York cops and the FBI’s own victims’ assistance office as part of a probe into whether Murdoch’s News…
ATF’s Melson May Have a Second Wind; Should FBI Have Used Violent Gun Smuggler as Informant?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the storm surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious getting more intense by the day, I thought it was time to step back and make some observations. One: Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, who seemed like a dead man walking earlier this monthafter word got out that he was going to…
Column: ATF’s Melson May Have a Second Wind; Should FBI Have Used Violent Gun Smuggler as Informant?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the storm surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious getting more intense by the day, I thought it was time to step back and make some observations. One: Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, who seemed like a dead man walking earlier this monthafter word got out that he was going to…
FBI Says Pakistan Plotted to Influence U.S. Policy
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC SCHMITT New York Times WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s military, including its powerful spy agency, has spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to tilt American policy against India’s control of much of Kashmir — including funneling campaign donations to members of Congress and presidential candidates, the F.B.I. claimed…