By Ronald Kessler Newsmax WASHINGTON — We are used to liberals trying to take away the tools FBI agents need to uncover terrorist plots. But when conservatives — who generally support strong national security — do the same thing, it is particularly dismaying. Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano and a few other conservatives have been…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Thousands of federal law enforcement agents work their tails off to put crooks behind bars. But on occasion, some of the very same folks who carry a gun and a badge and slap the cuffs on the bad guys end up stepping over the line….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Palestinian man pleaded guilty Thursday in Miami in a plot to acquire and transport stolen military weapons in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, 23, of the West Bank, pleaded guilty to trying to buy from an undercover agent what he thought were stolen M-16s,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is assisting police in Long Island into what may end up being a serial killer case. Four female bodies have been found in recent days on a Long Island Beach. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement Wednesday that the bureau “has offered assistance in the case. This…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page From Abscam to the arrest of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on drug charges, sting operations have brought accusations that the government was entrapping its targets. This perennial complaint has acquired a new sensitivity with charges that the FBI, as part of its anti-terrorism activities, is inducing Muslims…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent was sentenced Wednesday to two years probation and ordered to pay a $18,000 fine for unlawfully employing illegal immigrants at a deli she owned in suburban Dallas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ann Cox, who was fired in the summer after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges, …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI Dallas FBI agent pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case in which he was charged with plotting to kill his estranged wife and his boss, the head of the Dallas FBI, Robert Casey Jr., the Dallas Morning News reported. Carlos Ortiz Jr., 49, pleaded to retaliating against a federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A seven-member FBI team has gone to Sweden to help sort out the the botched explosion over the weekend that killed a 28-year-old suicide bomber in a crowded shopping district in Stockholm, the New York Times reported. The Times reported that the FBI experts specialize in analyzing bomb fragments, and that…
