By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The year 2010 was full of almost-disastrous terrorist acts from the Times Square Bomber to the the Portland teen who tried to detonate a car bomb during a Christmas-lighting ceremony in Oregon, only to find out it was an FBI sting. Not everyone agreed with the FBI tactics when…
Update: Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. said the Justice Department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law in the leaks, the Associated Press reported.”To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, who put at risk the assets and the people I have described, they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A draft by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that two prosecutors and an FBI agent in the Sen. Ted Stevens case engaged in misconduct,the Associated Press reported. AP, citing ” a lawyer familiar with the matter,” said the report found that prosecutors Joseph Bottini and James…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it won’t file criminal charges over the destruction by CIA workers of 92 videotapes showing harsh interrogation techniques of terrorism suspects. “In January 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham to investigate the destruction by CIA personnel of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A white Supremacist from Oregon is off to prison. A federal judge in Toledo sentenced Daniel Lee Jones of Portland to 18 months in prison for sending the president of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP, a noose by mail. He pleaded guilty in May. In his plea agreement, Jones…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Michigan Attorney General said the FBI violated no state laws when it fatally shot a Detroit mosque leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a raid of a suburban warehouse last October, the Detroit News reported. “My office’s review found undisputed evidence that Mr. Abdullah resisted arrest and fired a gun first…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– A contract worker for the State Department has been indicted here on charges of unlawfully disclosing national defense information to a national news outlet, the Justice Department announced Friday. Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, 43, was charged with leaking the information and lying to the FBI. The indictment was unsealed Friday….
In these small little towns in California, not only are some of the politicians extremely corrupt, but they’ve become places where gangs and Mexican and Colombian drug cartels operate freely. Investigative reporter Jeffrey Anderson examines the problem. By Jeffrey Anderson Washington Times BELL, Calif. — The gang graffiti that coats freeway overpasses, exit signs and…
