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FBI Shuts Down Bridge in Probe of Police Shootings in 2005
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There were signs over the weekend that the FBI was still very actively probing the New Orleans police related shooting deaths six days after Katrina in 2005. The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that the FBI shut down the infamous Danziger Bridge for several hours Saturday to scour for evidence where…
FBI Releases Soundless Videotapes of OK Bombing Aftermath
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The infamous bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 sent a collective shiver up America’s spine, a moment that will never be forgotten, particularly for those who lost family, were injured or had to run for their lives in the immediate aftermath. It was a…
NYPD vs FBI: The Hatfield and McCoys of Counterterrorism
Under the category of “can’t we all get along”, comes the ungoing saga of the FBI and the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit. The bottom line is: both need to work together. Ex-NYPD official Michael Sheehan offers his view of it all. By MICHAEL A. SHEEHAN NYPD Former Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism New York…
Dallas Morning News Editorial Praises FBI in Texas Terror Plot
Fountain Place Skyscraper By Dallas Morning News Editorial Page DALLAS — The FBI depicts Hosam Maher Husein Smadi as a blustering big talker who espoused anti-American jihadist sentiments over the Internet. But the 19-year-old Jordanian became more than an angry loudmouth, the FBI says, when he tried to detonate what he thought was a car…
FBI Probing American Youth Involvement in U.N. Bombing in Somalia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in the Post 9/11 era have long worried about people training in al Qaeda camps and coming to the U.S. But the Associated Press reports a disturbing trend of Somalian American youth returning home to fight for an Islamist militia linked to al Qaeda. The latest, the wire service…
Weekend Entertainment: Oldie But Goodie– Goodfellas Scene
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Obama Nominates 4 U.S. Attorneys Including One Whose Father is in Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday nominated four U.S. Attorneys including Nicholas Klinefeldt, whose father is in prison. Klinefeldt, the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Southern District of Iowa, has a father serving a 10-year sentence for a methamphetamine conviction. The story of his possible nomination and his father’s problems were…
No Laughing Matter: Ex-National Lampoon CEO Pleads Guilty in Stock Fraud Scheme
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “no laughing matter” comes Daniel Laikin, 47, the former CEO of National Lampoon. Laikin, a resident of both Indianapolis and Los Angeles, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Philadelphia to conspiracy to manipulate the humor company’s stock price from March through June 2008 by artificially increasing the price,…