OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Napolitano Applauds Review of Air Traffic Safety (AP) Police Look at How Houston Kindergartner Got Gun (AP) Blago Trial to Begin Wednesday With Jury Questions (AP) CIA Declassifies World War II Documents (AP) New Kidnap Fear (The Daily) Justice Dept.’s Breuer Trumpets $2.9 Billion Fraud Conviction (Main Justice) Las Vegas Man…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep. Peter King is busting the chops of the Justice Department, claiming the department overruled fed prosecutors and FBI agents who wanted to file charges against unindicted co-conspirators in a prosecution of a Texas-based Muslim charity — the Holy Land Foundation — which had ties to Hamas in Gaza, the Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Threatening to kill Col. Sanders of KFC fame is almost as bad as threatening Santa Claus — at least for those of us who grew up on the 11 herbs and spices. We last reported that the FBI opened a file on the legend after he asked for an autograph from…
By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Inside a Rockville laboratory, a team of scientists labored in round-the-clock shifts to do something many colleagues thought impossible: decode the genetic “fingerprint” of a deadly anthrax sample to help the FBI solve a case. The researchers had been swept into Amerithrax, the massive federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Blago noise machine is revving up again as the ex-Illinois governor prepares for his retrial next week in federal court in downtown Chicago. On Wednesday, Rod Blagojevich griped before a group of reporters in front of his Ravenswood Manor home in Chicago that the prosecution is refusing to play all…
subversive chicken? By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda they were not. But declassified FBI files show agents kept tabs on the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix and Col Sanders of KFC fame, according to the London publication, The Sun. The paper reports that the FBI files indicate the agency’s concern that the Beatles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The long arm of the FBI reached into Somalia and plucked out a man suspected of being the chief negotiator for a group of pirates who hijacked an American yacht in February and ultimately killed all four people aboard, authorities announced Wednesday. Mohammad Saaili Shibin, who worked ashore as the pirates…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI knows about good public relations. Portland, Ore., is a case in point. The TV station FOX 12 in Portland reports that FBI agents showed up to a Portland Trailblazer basketball practice in suburban Portland this week to reach out to player Gerald Wallace, 28, as a potential recruit and…
