By Sari Horwitz Washington Post WASHINGTON –– A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information about a disrupted terrorist plot to the Associated Press, according to the Justice Department. Donald John Sachtleben, 55, of Carmel, Ind., who previously had…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The discovery that feds were spying on the Associated Press has had a “chilling effect” on the news agency, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter said, the U.S. News reports. Reporter Martha Mendoza called the snooping “a massive and unprecedented intrusion” into the reporting of more than 20 reporters, the U.S. News wrote….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder defended the secret gathering of telephone records at the Associated Press on Wednesday, citing a serious national security leak, the AP reports. Grilled by Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, Holder testified that he has faith in those conducting the investigation and recused himself from the case…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion,” the Justice Department covertly collected two months of telephone records from reporters and editors at the Associated Press, CNN reports. The records came from the work and person phone numbers reporters and other at the AP. It’s uncertain what officials are looking for, but one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last time I checked, John Mitchell of the Nixonian era was no longer our Attorney General. But you’d be hard pressed not to feel that the crooked Mitchell was heading up the Justice Department, which we now learn, secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last time I checked, John Mitchell of the Nixonian era was no longer our Attorney General. But you’d be hard pressed not to feel that the crooked Mitchell was heading up the Justice Department, which we now learn, secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s been more than a month since the FBI began publicly seeking a man dubbed “The Potomac River Rapist”, who suspected in a series of sexual assaults and a slaying in the D.C. area, reports the Associated Press, and, despite “multiple good leads and tips,” the bureau has not identified a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A fire at a suburban Chicago home may have been used to hide the murder of four people in the house, ATF agents have told the Associated Press. A woman and three young relatives were found dead by gunshot in the home, presumably shot before the blaze began, according to the…
