Chicago
Is the Chicago Judge Going too Far by Withholding Jurors Names After the Verdict?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imagine taxpayers spending millions of dollars collectively trying an Illinois governor, and in the end, the case all but collapses. The jurors only convict on one of 24 counts . They end up deadlocked on the rest. Imagine that. Yes,it’s not too hard, considering it happened in the first trial of…
Chicago FBI Looking for Folks With Foreign Language Skills
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As part of its ongoing battle against a host of crimes including cyber crime, terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, corruption, kidnapping and civil rights violations,the FBI in Chicago is looking to recruit contract linguists with foreign language skills. The bureau is hosting a foreign language career fair on March 12 at the offices…
Is it End of the Line for Ex-FBI Agent Jody Weis as Head of Chicago Police?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be the end of the line for ex-FBI agent Jody Weis, the first outsider to head up the Chicago Police Department in nearly 50 years? The Chicago Tribune reports that his three-year, $310,000 a year contract as police chief expires on Tuesday, and Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel had pledged to…
Judge in Blago Case May Get Jurors No-Trespassing Signs for Homes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is a federal judge going too far by restraining the media or just being considerate? The Chicago Tribune reports that U.S. District Judge James Zagel in Chicago said Thursday he may have the U.S. Marshals Service offer no-trespassing signs to jurors to put up at their homes following the verdict in…
Blago Attys Claim FBI Tape of Rahm Emanuel Missing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich — a man who never saw a microphone he didn’t like — has filed a pretrial motion seeking what he says is missing evidence including records of a phone call between Blagojevich aide John Harris and then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the…
Column: Ex-FBI Agent Rowley “Secretive, Unaccountable” Homeland Security Turning Inward on Americans
Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and legal counsel in the Minneapolis field office, wrote a “whistleblower” memo in May 2002 and testified to the Senate Judiciary on some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She retired in 2004 and is now a writer and speaker. By COLEEN ROWLEY Minneapolis Star-Tribune A secretive, unaccountable, post-9/11…
Rep. Mike Rogers — Ex-FBI Agent — Criticizes Dir. Robert Mueller For Going to Az
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mi.), a former FBI agent, criticized the decision by President Obama to dispatch FBI director Robert S. Mueller to Arizona after the mass shooting on Saturday, according to the radio station WHMI in Livingston County, Mi., outside Detroit. “He didn’t need to be in Arizona to…