By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Saying they didn’t wish to delay the trial, federal prosecutors on Sunday said they won’t appeal a judge’s ruling that bans a key witness from testifying in the first criminal trial of Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspect, Reuters news service reported. “The government . . . has decided not to pursue an…
Jack Devine ,a former CIA deputy director of operations and chief of the CIA Afghan Task Force from 1986 to 1987, is president of the Arkin Group, a private intelligence company based in New York. By Jack Devine Washington Post Outlook Section There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden is foremost on the minds…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fun is over for Brenna Marie Reilly. The Washington Examiner reports she was sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandra, Va., to 30 days in prison and four months of house arrest for impersonating an FBI agent and hiring an assistant to work for her as a fake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent Cornelius “Neil” Sullivan, who was the section chief of the intelligence division and was credited with fostering improved relations with the CIA, died earlier this month in Silver Spring, Md. at age 84, the Washington Post reported. Sullivan joined the FBI in 1951 and served in…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The CIA had a bag of dirty tricks ready for Saddam Hussein in preparation of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq that included making him look like a pedophile. It also had something similar planned for Osama bin Laden. The Washington Post blog Spy Talk, citing former…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA station chief in Algiers was arrested Monday at a Norfolk, Va. hotel after failing to show up for a hearing last week in U.S. District Court in Washington where he faces charges of sexually assaulting a woman while stationed overseas, the website Spy Talk reported. U.S. Marshals, Diplomatic…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-DEA Agent Richard Horn may have been quite happy when the government agreed to pay him $3 million late last year to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed the CIA spied on him and illegally wiretapped his conversations while he was stationed in Burma in 1993. But U.S….
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