By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s plan to defuse a First Amendment showdown with a New York Times reporter over his confidential sources was nearly derailed at a court hearing Monday when the journalist rebuffed a series of questions concerning his reporting. But he eventually agreed to answer some of the queries,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service is investigating claims that Creed singer Scott Stapp was on a mission to assassinate President Obama on the delusional belief that he was working for the CIA, People reports. The singer’s wife told a 911 operator last month that Stapp was having a schizophrenic episode, riding shirtless on…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James Davis, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who headed the Denver office and served in Afghanistan and Iraq, said the brutal interrogation techniques outlined by the Senate’s torture report were appropriate to keep the U.S. safe. “In the FBI, we build relationships on a rapport with the detainees that’s built…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has given the Justice Department until Tuesday to decide whether to subpoena New York Times reporter James Risen to testify against a CIA operative who allegedly leaked classified information to the journalist, the Huffington Post reports. U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema issued the order Tuesday. Former CIA…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department roiled civil rights advocates on Tuesday by saying it would not reopen a criminal probe into the CIA’s handling of terrorism suspects following a sobering report about torture, the USA Today reports. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report disclosed several types of abuse – water-boarding, extreme sleep deprivation and others…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI released a bulletin to law enforcement following the disclosure Tuesday that the CIA tortured terrorism suspects. Here is the bulletin, written by Jeremy W. Francis: Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, law enforcement agencies engaged in the Global War on Terrorism. Police officers, along with…
By Mark Mazzetti New York Times WASHINGTON — A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, and that its methods were more brutal than the C.I.A….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com By most accounts, David Petraeus is on the rise after losing his job in the wake of an extramarital affair that forced him to resign as director of the CIA. But Bloomberg reports that Petraeus, who has secured a job at the private equity firm KKR, is still under investigation by…
