By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI memo issued in December says investigators can interrogate domestic-terror suspects longer without giving them a Miranda warning, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Evan Perez. The FBI memo said the policy applies to “exceptional cases” where investigators “conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The year 2010 was full of almost-disastrous terrorist acts from the Times Square Bomber to the the Portland teen who tried to detonate a car bomb during a Christmas-lighting ceremony in Oregon, only to find out it was an FBI sting. Not everyone agreed with the FBI tactics when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just as expected, Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, who authorities say had links to al Qaeda in Pakistan, was given a life sentence Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, during sentencing, told Shahzad, according to the New York Times: “You are a young man, and you will have a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the Times Square Bomber planned to set off an additional bomb two weeks later, according to court papers filed by prosecutors Wednesday, which urged the judge to give Faisal Shahzad a life sentence. The papers, a sentencing memorandum, said that Shahazd hoped to kill 40 people in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 44-year-old Long Island man was arrested on Wednesday on charges of unwittingly helping fund the Times Square bomber Faisel Shahzad, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The indictment charged that Mohammad Younis transferred thousands of dollars from Pakistan to the U.S. to Shahzad through an unlicensed money transfer business known as…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News His title may be “acting,” but there’s no pretending that things haven’t been outright wild, abuzz, atwitter, downright explosive since George Venizelos took over in March on a temporary basis as head of the New York FBI office, the largest in the country. There was the high-anxiety Times Square…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there was any question whether Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad might catch a break during sentencing for fully cooperating with the FBI, his statements in court on Monday may have cleared that all up: It’s highly highly unlikely. Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday and then warned the court of more…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has apologized to a New York man whose Long Island home was raided in connection to the Times Square car bomb incident, the man said, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that Mohammad Iqbal said agents returned his Pakistani passport and other items seized during a raid at…
