By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday found himself defending the handling of the Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit — this time before a Congressional committee. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., told Mueller he would have preferred that a team of interrogation experts had been brought to Detroit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The badly burned underwear bomber told authorities as he was led away on Christmas Day that there was a second bomb aboard the Northwest plane that have arrived from Amsterdam, when in fact there was not, the Associated Press reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made incriminating statements to Customs officials…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are those who are trying to figure out how to help the folks in Haiti. And then there are those who are trying to figure out how scam the charity-minded people. On Friday, the FBI arrested a suburban Detroit man who impersonated an FBI agent collecting money for Haiti, WDIV…
The use of FBI informants in mosques is causing a lot of tension around the country between Muslims and the FBI. Here’s one of those instances. BY NIRAJ WARIKOO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER DETROIT — He called himself Jabril. Two years ago, a white man who claimed he was an ex-con and convert to Islam…
Yes, more than 8 years after the infamous Sept. 11, 2001 attack, the friendly skies still have the potential to be pretty darn scary. Here’s a Detroit Free Press account of the incident as told by some passengers. BY NAOMI R. PATTON Detroit Free Press Staff Writer DETROIT — Most of the passengers on Northwest…
Ex-Prosecutor Convertino By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Detroit assistant U.S. Attorney doesn’t have to provide his emails in a controversial lawsuit involving a former colleague who is suing the Justice Department over leaks to the Detroit Free Press. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington ruled earlier this month that former federal…
