Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Abdulbaki Todashev raised a photo of his dead son during a news conference Tuesday and pledged to uncover the truth behind Ibragim Todashev’s death during an FBI interrogation, The Guardian reports. Todashev hired two prominent civil rights attorneys in Florida to determine what prompted the death of his 27-year-old son, who was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The father of the Chechen man who was fatally shot during an FBI interview in Orlando plans to speak out Tuesday at a press conference, The Orland Sentinel reports. Abdulbaki Todashev recently traveled from Russia to the U.S. in search of answers about his son, Ibragim Todashev, a friend of one of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 19-year-old roommate of the Chechen man killed by an FBI agent in Florida last month was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the country by July 1, raising fears that she is being swept out of the country before she can provide details to law enforcement, the Boston Globe reports….
By Josh Gerstein Politico Under President George W. Bush, the Justice Department considered and rejected criminal charges against the Council on American-Islamic Relations for alleged support of Hamas, a knowledgeable source told POLITICO Monday. The decision not to indict CAIR came in 2004 as prosecutors in Dallas were preparing to seek an indictment of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Egyptian-American college student in California filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday, saying the agency violated his civil rights when it secretly placed a GPS tracking device on his car, the Associated Press reported. Yasir Afifi, a student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., who insists the…
