By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI kept tabs on civil rights lawsuits filed by blacks 40 years ago against legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant of the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide, the Associated Press reported. The AP, which obtained FBI documents under the Freedom of Information Act, reported that for nearly two years agent tracked…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now for the lighter side of life. FBI agent Christopher Johnson was one of five agents who partook in the Ironman competition at Lake Placid, N.Y. on July 25, the FBI in Detroit announced. Johnson completed the 140.6 mile race — 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent who was fired after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges last month claiming she hired illegal immigrants for a restaurant she owned is expected to plead guilty to the charges next week, the Dallas Morning News reports. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed misdemeanor charges on July 28…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former top FBI interrogator, who is a Muslim, says the opposition to building a mosque near ground zero is only helping al-Qaeda, the Washington Post’s Spy Talk column reports. “It bolsters the message that radicalizers are selling: That the war is against Islam, and Muslims are not welcome in America,”…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — U.S. ATTORNEY Patrick J. Fitzgerald should back off his vow to retry former governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.). With moral thunder in December 2008, the aggressive prosecutor declared that the state’s chief executive was nabbed “in the middle of what we can only describe as a public corruption…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News At first blush, Rod Blagojevich appeared almost Houdini-like, slipping out from under a weight of charges that seemed almost certain to bury the former Illinois governor. A federal jury in downtown Chicago convicted him Tuesday on only one of 24 corruption counts — one that involved lying to FBI…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com A new threat could be crawling across the nation, clad in diapers: Terror babies. Seriously? Well, yes seriously if you ask some Texas Republican members of Congress who cite former FBI agents, according to Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 show on CNN. Nonsense, if you ask a former high ranking FBI official,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looks like the prolific “Grandad Bandit”, suspected of at least 25 bank robberies in 13 states in less than two years, is retiring involuntarily — and not to Florida to enjoy the early bird specials. The FBI said agents arrested the bandit, aka Michael Francis Mara, 52, of Baton Rouge, La.,…
