By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes curiosity just isn’t enough reason to do something. At least that’s what the government seems to believe as it fights efforts by the group Judicial Watch, which has asked under the Freedom of Information Act for photos and videos of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A decade later and it appears that al-Qaeda members are still trying to turn airplanes into deadly weapons. “Al-Qaida has been obsessed with airplanes, they continue to be obsessed with airplanes,” said Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI., according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “They want to use airplanes to kill…
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If talk show host David Letterman were to put out a “Top 10 List” of reasons to be paranoid, this would be at the top. The FBI has said it will investigate a death threat made by a radical Muslim, the International Business Times reports. The radical person called for Letterman’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III began the process on Wednesday of getting a two- year extension when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Committee is considering a bill that would extend his stay two years beyond the 10-year term, which expires in September. Currently legislation limits the term…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hand of al Qaeda is on key evidence involving attempted terrorist attacks against the U.S. The Associated Press reports that the fingerprints of al-Qaida’s top bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri in Yemen has been linked to the bomb hidden in the underwear of a Nigerian man on Christmas day on…
James Cavanaugh was an ATF agent and supervisor for 33 years before retiring in 2010. By James Cavanaugh For ticklethwire.com Dingdong the witch is dead. Yet the Al Qeada organization remains active and no doubt bent on revenge to show the world it is viable and deadly. Law-enforcement leaders now have a special challenge: To…
“They haven’t done everything perfectly. They’ve made mistakes. By and large, he has moved the FBI in the right direction.” — Glenn A. Fine, former Justice Dept. Inspector General in Time article on Robert Mueller By Barton Gellman Time FBI Director Bob Mueller glanced at the black chronograph he wears Marine-style, the face inside his…
