By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hunt is on for the leak. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has opened an investigation into a classified U.S. program that involved cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The New York Times ran an excerpt last week of a book by reporter David Sanger. It included details of…
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff The CIA foiled a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner around the one-year anniversary of the killing of its former leader Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. officials told NBC News. Officials said the plot involved a bomb with a design that upgraded the underwear…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For some citizens, it might be fun to fantasize about what it would be like to be an FBI agent. The key is to leave it at just that: a fantasy. That didn’t happen in Austin, Tex. Police there are trying to find out about anyone who might have been pulled…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA officer, who helped track down and capture a big terror suspect, was charged Monday with repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities, the Justice Department said. The charges were…
By Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent ConsortiumNews.com The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our Constitutional Republic into a powerful, unaccountable Military Empire. The U.S. Senate has just voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, which allows the military to operate…
Kessler is the author of “The Secrets of the FBI.” By Ronald Kessler Newsmax Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or…
By David Ashenfelter Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Nada Prouty, the former Taylor woman who was drummed out of the CIA, prosecuted and stripped of her U.S. citizenship in 2007 because of a fraudulent marriage, says in a new book that she was railroaded by overzealous prosecutors and FBI agents in Detroit. “They had no…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years into the Obama administration, the Justice Department appears to be as hard-nosed about challenging reporters’ rights to protect confidential sources as it was under the Bush administration. The latest: The Justice Department has gone to the Court of Appeals to challenge District judge, who ruled that New York…
