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Lara Logan’s Mystery Man
By Jeff Stein Newsweek Nobody at 60 Minutes has been fired or even publicly disciplined for its odd, inflammatory and dead-wrong October 27 story on the Islamist assault in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. But it has apologized. That mea culpa, however, left some large and troubling questions unanswered;…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The JFK Assassination
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Interview with FBI Agent Reveals New Details about ‘Whitey’ Bulger, Including His Cheap Socks
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI agent credited with capturing notorious gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger provides new details about the June 2011 arrest, CBS reports. CBS released a short clip previewing the interview with Scott Garriola that will be aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday. When FBI agents raided Bulger’s apartment, they found a collection of…
Washington Times Sues Homeland Security for Confiscating Reporter’s Notes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Washington Times has sued Homeland Security after federal agents seized a reporter’s notes, the Associated Press reports. The suit accuses federal agents of illegally seizing the materials during a search warrant over a gun and potato launcher allegedly possessed by the reporter’s husband. Now the newspaper wants the notes back and…
FBI Spied on French Philosophers Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre Over Their Politics
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What does it mean to be alive? Who are we? What is our purpose? Those weren’t the question the FBI was interested in answering while agents spied on French philosophers John-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Instead, the FBI was concerned about their politics and whether they were a danger to the U.S.,…
Dallas Morning News: City Will Never Truly Get Beyond Nov. 22, 1963
Dallas Morning News Editorial Fifty years is a relative blip on the grand timeline, barely a rounding error between your genesis point and the end of life as we know it. Yet in human terms, 50 years is longer than many life spans, past and present. In Dallas terms, 50 years is five decades of…
Former Secret Service Agent Depicts Unflattering Picture of Bureaucrats in New Book
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 12-year Secret Service agent who resigned in 2011 to run for a Senate seat in Maryland has written a book about his career. Dan Bongino’s “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from it All” hit the bookshelves Tuesday, offering a look at the staffers, acolytes,…
Notorious Mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger Appeals Convictions Less Than Week After Prison Sentence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger plan to appeal his murder and racketeering conviction less than a week after he was sentenced to two life terms in prison, Reuters reports. The brief filing in U.S. District Court in Boston does not list specific objections. But Reuters suggests Bulger’s attorneys may be…