By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The FBI is making a new move to try and bring its troubled computer project called the “Sentinel” under control, according to the Washington Post’s Capital Business report. The program has been plagued by endless glitches. The paper reports that the FBI has decided to bring the project in…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxhbVpyo6c WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST FBI Serves Terrorism Warrants in Minn. and Chicago (NY Times) U.S. Officials Defend State Secrets Claim in al-Aulaqi Suit (Washington Post)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The convicted drug dealer whose wife shot and killed a Pittsburgh FBI agent in 2008 during a raid at their home was sentenced Friday in federal court to 25 years in prison, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The paper reported that Robert Korbe, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, gun and insurance…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Senate Committee Wednesday that he’s concerned about terrorist plots against the U.S. coming primarily from three sources: core al Qaeda, al Qaeda’s affiliates, and homegrown extremists. “In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, al Qaeda’s plots and plans primarily focused on using…
By The Boston Globe Editorial GREENPEACE, THE Catholic Worker, the Thomas Merton Center — none of these groups had the remotest connection to 9/11 or terrorism. And the FBI had no business investigating them — with no evidence other than a suspicion of left-wing organizations in wartime. This was shameful red-baiting at its worst. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — George Venizelos will take over the FBI’s Philadelphia office, replacing Janice Fedarcyk who recently took over the New York FBI Office, the FBI announced Tuesday. Venizelos is the special agent in charge of the Administrative Division for the FBI’s New York Division and temporarily filled in for a while…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI including the director gave inaccurate and misleading statements to Congress and the public about reasons why an agent conducted surveillance at an anti-war rally in 2002 at the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh, according a report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. The report concluded that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A drug dealer whose wife shot and killed Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 during an FBI raid at their home laughed when he learned the agent had been shot, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. As a result of that and his…
