By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds in New York are considering indicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother — a U.S. citizen who used to reside in Maryland — on tax evasion, the Washington Post reports. The Post, which contact brother Mahmoud Karzai by phone for comment, quoted him as saying he had not…
Jack Devine ,a former CIA deputy director of operations and chief of the CIA Afghan Task Force from 1986 to 1987, is president of the Arkin Group, a private intelligence company based in New York. By Jack Devine Washington Post Outlook Section There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden is foremost on the minds…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, claims a DEA note he has proves he’s an innocent man, the Washington Post reports. The DEA says that ain’t necessarily so. Ahmed Karzai, long rumored to be getting rich off Afghanistan’s opium trade said of the DEA letter, according to the Post:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By all accounts, this was not your typical sentencing. First, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in New York sentenced a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist to 86 years for trying to kill U.S. federal agents and troops. That came after defendant Aafia Siddiqui, 38, called on Muslims to resist using violence, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fun is over for Brenna Marie Reilly. The Washington Examiner reports she was sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandra, Va., to 30 days in prison and four months of house arrest for impersonating an FBI agent and hiring an assistant to work for her as a fake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said Wednesday that his agents were assisting the Department of Defense in a controversial leak investigation into the ream of documents that were leaked on the Afghanistan war. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he also acknowledged a Justice Department probe into the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder came to Afghanistan on Wednesday to talk to officials about the justice system and public corruption, which seems to be running rampant, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Holder’s visit comes in wake of Afghan’s top prosecutor’s denial that he was being pressured to look the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members of the Justice Department, FBI and DEA in Afghanistan are getting a first hand look at corruption and how certain citizens are being protected from prosecution and arrest, the Washington Post reports. The Post reports that the Afghanistan government has repeatedly derailed criminal investigations of connected citizens. The U.S. investigators…
