News Story
Column: Ex-FBI Agent Rowley “Secretive, Unaccountable” Homeland Security Turning Inward on Americans
Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and legal counsel in the Minneapolis field office, wrote a “whistleblower” memo in May 2002 and testified to the Senate Judiciary on some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She retired in 2004 and is now a writer and speaker. By COLEEN ROWLEY Minneapolis Star-Tribune A secretive, unaccountable, post-9/11…
Homeland Security Pulls Plug on Border Fence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s certainly not the first government boondoggle and it certainly won’t be the last. Nonetheless, it appears it was waste of time and money. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday decided to cut off the ambitious, problem-plagued billion-dollar program SBInet to build a high-tech fence along the Arizona…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Chinatown Mafia
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsvwR1DZ-o WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST 12 Suspects and 2 Soldiers Die in Shootout in Mexico (AP) 60 Minutes Posts 1975 Interview With Secret Service Agent in Kennedy Assassination Who Takes Blame (CBS)
Column: Ex-DEA Official Criticizes Outspoken Arizona Sheriff Dupnik
William Coonce worked for the DEA for 29 years and was special agent in charge of the Detroit Division from 1987 to 1993. By William Coonce For ticklethewire.com TUCSON — Subsequent to my retirement from the DEA in 1993, I was hired by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, Arizona to be the Deputy…
Ex-Mobster Claims in Book He was Recruited to Kill John (Junior) Gotti
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A reformed Brooklyn gangster claims in his book “Surviving the Mob” that he was recruited by a Gambino crime family capo in 1996 to rub out gangster John (Junior) Gotti over money, according to the website Gang Land News. Some have dismissed the claims as garbage, according to Gang Land News…
Brooklyn Fed Judge Defies Prosecutors in Child Porn Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Brooklyn, a federal judge is getting some attention for siding more with a man convicted on child pornography charges than with federal prosecutors. The New York Times reports that U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein blew off prosecutor’s recommendation that defendant Pietro Polizzi, 57, of Queens get 11-14 years. On…
Column: al Qaeda “Adaptive, Agile and Resilient”
Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer, is a senior fellow in the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is “Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad.” By Bruce Riedel Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page Al Qaeda has just released the latest in its series of how-to guides…
Guyanese National Gets 15 Years in Plot to Blow Up JFK Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Guyanese national was sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court to 15 years in prison for his role in an international plot to blow up fuel lines and fuel tanks under JFK Airport in Queens, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities charged that that Abdel Nur provided material support to the…