By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to hire someone to help in a federal criminal matter, it can’t hurt to get an attorney who use to head up the FBI. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was hired by Minnesota businessman Nasser Kazeminy, who was under investigation for allegations that he gave Sen. Norm Coleman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI forensic team has been sent to Yemen to investigate the attack on the presidential compound that wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the website Global Post reported. “The FBI is aiding Yemeni law enforcement in their investigation in the attack on the presidential compound. The FBI team arrived in Sanaa…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– The case of the smashed up $750,000 Ferrari simply won’t go away for the FBI and the Justice Department. Reporter Ed White of the Associated Press reports that a Southfield, Mi. insurance firm, which is suing the feds to recover money from the crash, is wondering about the suspicious…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He escaped the long reach of the U.S. for 13 years. He was on the FBI’s Top Ten Terrorist List. And there was a $5 million reward for his capture. Last week, a bullet ended all of that. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the organizer of the 1998 terrorist bombings in Kenya and…
By Charlie Savage The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. Enlarge This Image The F.B.I….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The FBI in Detroit has issued a warning: Beware of emails that display the FBI seal and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III’s name. The emails, that have been sent to Michigan residents as well as others nationwide, direct people to contact the Department of Homeland Security and send…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III began the process on Wednesday of getting a two- year extension when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Committee is considering a bill that would extend his stay two years beyond the 10-year term, which expires in September. Currently legislation limits the term…
William Yeomans served as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a Justice Department official. He is now a law professor at American University. By WILLIAM YEOMANS Politico Robert Mueller has had a stunning record of success in transforming the FBI into a domestic surveillance and security agency. That success…
