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San Diego Fed Judge Larry Burns Assigned to Az Shooting Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After all the Arizona federal judges recused themselves in presiding over the trial of mass-shooter Jared Loughner, the bench turned to San Diego. U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns, a 2003 appointee of President George W. Bush, has been appointed to preside over the trial, the Arizona Republic reported. Of course,…
Feds Prepare for Trial of Woman Accused of Killing Pitts. FBI Agent Sam Hicks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds are gearing up for the trial of a woman accused of killing Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry has ordered the federal jury administrator to summon 350 people to serve as the jury pool for the March…
Detained Teen Says FBI Pressed Him During Interrogation in Kuwait
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A controversy is surfacing over the questioning of an American teen in Kuwait who is on the no-fly list. The New York Times reports that the teen Gulet Mohamed says he was detained in Kuwait and “underwent a heated interrogation by F.B.I. agents for several hours on Wednesday, in…
John Dowdy Jr. Named Court Appointed U.S. Atty in Mississippi
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John M. Dowdy Jr., who has been the acting first assistant U.S. Attorney for the past year, is now the court-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. He replaces Donald R. Burkhalter, who retired this month. Dowdy was appointed by Chief U.S. District Judge…
Fed Agents Find LAX Airport Can be a Zoo– Literally
By Allan Lengel For AOL News On any given day, the sprawling Los Angeles International Airport known as LAX can be a zoo, locked in a frenetic pace, passengers coming and going. And then on certain days, it really, really is a zoo. Over the past few years alone, federal law enforcement authorities have nabbed…
FBI Arrests Palm Springs Man for Threatening Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old Palms Spring, Calif., man on charges of making intimidating phone calls to a Democratic Washington state Congressman Jim McDermott that included threats to kill him, his family and friends. Charles Turner Haberman was slated to appear in federal court in Riverside, Calif. on Wednesday….
Justice Dept. Fights Back Against Attempts to Muzzle Holder and Others in Portland Terrorism Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is fighting back attempts by defense attorneys to muzzle Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. and other government workers when it comes to pre-trial comments in the terrorism case involving a teen who tried to detonate a bomb in Portland during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in December. It…
Column: We Must Stop Sociopaths Like Loughner From Getting Guns
By Dan Simpson Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There is something seriously wrong with a country in which a mentally disturbed young man can buy a semi-automatic weapon and gun down a member of Congress, a judge, a 9-year-old schoolgirl and more than a dozen other innocent people in front of a shopping center. It gets worse when…