By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 300-page police report released Friday stated that 20 FBI agents and three others in law enforcement said they heard agents warn Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah to show his hands or they’d send in a police dog, the Detroit Free Press reported. The report backed the conclusion this week by the…
By Coleen Rowley Ex-FBI Agent For Huffington Post The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a couple other Midwest cities. Members of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now it’s the feds turn to teach Cecilia Chang, former vice president and dean of a New York university, a big lesson. Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday indicted the former St. John’s University official for allegedly threatening to revoke scholarships if students failed to carry out certain tasks like…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Michigan Attorney General said the FBI violated no state laws when it fatally shot a Detroit mosque leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a raid of a suburban warehouse last October, the Detroit News reported. “My office’s review found undisputed evidence that Mr. Abdullah resisted arrest and fired a gun first…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI teamed up with the police department to help solve 27 murders in the past three months, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that under the joint effort, which began July 1, the FBI provided six agents, equipment, crime lab help and money to pay for LAPD detectives’…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Andy Stern, the contentious man who headed the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, is under investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that two organized labor officials were interviewed this summer by federal agents about a six-figure book contract…
By Spencer Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — An FBI whistleblower trial has cast a spotlight on the bureau’s difficult transition from a crime-fighting agency into a counterterrorism and intelligence force, as seen through the career of its highest-ranking Arab American agent. Over a two-week trial in Washington, a federal jury heard for the first…
