By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — At a high-profile Justice Department press conference Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller was no where to be seen when officials discussed the arrest of the Times Square car bomb suspect. In his place, was his deputy director John Pistole, who stood along side a host of high-ranking federal officials…
For many months now, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has been the pinata for some Republicans, who have seldom missed an opportunity to bash him, to use him as a point man to try and prove that the Obama administration is not tough enough on terrorism, and that trying to hold the 9/11 trial in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Newly minted New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is asking the Justice Department to step in and help reform the troubled police department that has been plagued by scandal, including the cover up of police shootings right after Katrina in 2005. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Landrieu on Wednesday asked Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will allocate 33 new assistant U.S. Attorneys to address crime in Indian Country in 21 judicial districts across the nation. Additionally, the Justice Department has launched three Indian Country Prosecution Teams that will work closely with the Indian community. “Violent crimes, and particularly crimes against women…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad admitted after his arrest Monday night that he brought the Nissan Pathfinder to Times Square on Saturday and tried to detonate it, according to an FBI affivadit unsealed Tuesday afternoon. The affidavit, part of criminal complaint, also stated that Shahzad admitted getting bomb training in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Obama administration, which still has more vacant positions to fill than a department store chain before Christmas, is apparently getting ready to name a new deputy attorney general. The investigative news website ProPublica reports that the administration is ready to nominate white collar defense attorney James A. Cole, 57 a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — better known in the N.Y. tabloids as “Bloomy” — wants Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to make up his mind already about where he’ll try five 9/11 suspects including the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the New York Post reports. Quoting a response to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. continues to bark back at critics who want all foreign terrorism suspects to be prosecuted in military courts. In a speech Thursday in Washington he said proposed legislation in the Senate to require such a policy would “seriously harm our national security”, the Washington…
