By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com South Florida isn’t just the home of white belts, white shoes, early bird specials and transplanted New York mobsters. The Miami Herald reports that the Eastern European mob has become a big concern for the FBI — bigger than the Italian mafia. “Eurasian organized crime is our No. 1 priority,” FBI…
By Sebastian Rotella ProPublica CHICAGO—Confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley was so eager to cooperate after his 2009 arrest that he worked with FBI agents to try to engineer the capture of a suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks and proposed setting up another kingpin for a missile strike, according to testimony in federal court…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft is off the hook. In an 8-0 ruling, the Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit against Ashcroft. It overturned a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, saying the former Attorney General under President Bush enjoyed “qualified immunity” from a lawsuit filed by Abdullah al Kidd,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On one Facebook fan page, where the California “Geezer Bandit” has 6,798 people who “like this”, fan Carl Randall wrote on Saturday: “So THIS is what happens when the government freezes Social Security COLA raises!! LOL! YOU GO GEEZER BANDIT!!” Fan Ronnie Israel wrote: “Geezer has the FBI going around in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. gets his fair share of grief inside the Beltway, particularly from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. But some of that grief on Friday came from elsewhere: the heartland. Minnesota Public Radio reported that Holder’s speech in Minneapolis at a conference on preventing youth violence…
By Ronald Kessler Newsmax For FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the biggest threat to the bureau was a movement to do away with the FBI’s counterterrorism effort and replace it with a new terror-fighting agency similar to the British MI5. Such an agency would have investigative powers but none of the FBI’s law enforcement…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In an unusual sign of bipartisanship, the top Democrats and Republicans of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence introduced legislation Thursday that would allow FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to extend his 10-year term by two years. Top ranking senators said the bill would provide a…
