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Appeals Court Denies Ex-FBI Agent Robert Lustyik Jr. Freedom Pending Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Robert Lustyik Jr. won’t be getting out federal prison in Utah any time soon. The website Lohud.com reports that afederal appeals court in Utah has denied his request to get out of the fed prison pending trial on conspiracy charges. His freedom was revoked March 19 after a judge…
Radical Anwar al-Awaki Liked the Hookers, FBI Documents Show
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com So much for holiness and disdain for the vices of the west. CNN reports that in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, FBI agents surveilled U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and found he was visiting prostitutes. The network reports Al-Awlaki lived in a Washington suburb at the time and visited…
Ex-FBI Director Freeh Investigating Attorney Tied to BP’s Multibillion-Dollar Settlement
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed by federal judges to investigate a court-supervised administrator of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement, the Associated Press reports. Freeh, a private consultant, was named a “special master” by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. Freeh is to investigate whether an attorney on the staff of claims administrator, Patrick…
Border Patrol Seeks Weaponizing Domestic Drones Amid Serious Questions
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol officials are hoping to soon use “non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize” people on surveillance drones, the Atlantic reports. The discovery comes from documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “This is the first we’ve heard of any federal agency proposing using weapons on drones flown domestically,” the EFF wrote. “The…
Opinion: Obama’s Choice for FBI Director – James Comey – Is a Wrong One
By Richard Cohen Washington Post It was probably the most famous hospital visit since Bob Woodward snuck into the room of dying CIA Director William Casey in 1987. This time it was James Comey, a deputy attorney general, who in 2004 rushed to the bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft and implored him not to…
Ex-FBI Agent Makes Tearful Apology to Family of Murder Victim at ‘Whitey’ Bulger Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Disgraced FBI agent John Morris made a tearful courtroom apology Monday to the family of one of the alleged murder victims in the trial of accused mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, ABC News reports. Morris testified that he gave former FBI agent John Connolly information that ultimately led to the murder…
Moving FBI Headquarters to Suburbs May Have Net Gain for Washington D.C.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington D.C. has a lot to lose – and gain – if the FBI moves its longtime headquarters to the suburbs. If the bureau moves from Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 4,800 jobs would go with it, the Washington Post reports. But redevelopment of the site could generate an additional $28 million, the Post reported,…
Potential Witness in Chechen Man’s Death Ordered to Leave Country
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 19-year-old roommate of the Chechen man killed by an FBI agent in Florida last month was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the country by July 1, raising fears that she is being swept out of the country before she can provide details to law enforcement, the Boston Globe reports….