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Govt. Watchdog Finds Shortcomings with FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Tracking Unit
The report says the FBI made some improvements during the course of the audit, but there were still important improvements that needed to be made. The upside is in the past week the FBI has looked pretty good busting up suspected terrorist plots in Texas, Illinois and N.Y. By Fox News The FBI unit tasked…
Some Think Small-Time Denver Atty In Over His Head in Latest Terrorism Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is it petty jealousy or just honesty? Some lawyers think that small-time Denver attorney Art Folsom is in over his head representing Najibullah Zazi in the biggest terrorism case in recent times. Stephanie Simon of the Wall Street reports that Folsom has made a career out representing clients for drug possession,…
Legal Experts Chastise FBI For Not Disclosing Sooner Agent’s Sexual Affair With Informant in Jefferson Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Transparency, transparency, transparency. And yes, disclosure. That’s often the best policy when the federal government takes a case to trial, particularly a big one. But Bruce Alpert and Jonathan Tilove, reporters at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, have put together an intriguing report on how the FBI failed to disclose…
Dallas Morning News Editorial Praises FBI in Texas Terror Plot
Fountain Place Skyscraper By Dallas Morning News Editorial Page DALLAS — The FBI depicts Hosam Maher Husein Smadi as a blustering big talker who espoused anti-American jihadist sentiments over the Internet. But the 19-year-old Jordanian became more than an angry loudmouth, the FBI says, when he tried to detonate what he thought was a car…
FBI Probing American Youth Involvement in U.N. Bombing in Somalia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in the Post 9/11 era have long worried about people training in al Qaeda camps and coming to the U.S. But the Associated Press reports a disturbing trend of Somalian American youth returning home to fight for an Islamist militia linked to al Qaeda. The latest, the wire service…
FBI Pays Egyptian Man $250,000 For Arrest Linked to Pilot Radio
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As federal authorities certainly know by now, 2+2 doesn’t always equal 4 in the investigative world. The FBI learned that the hard way in the case of Abdallah Higazy, 38. The FBI this week paid $250,000 to the Egyptian man who was detained after a pilot’s aviation radio was found in…
FBI Says Corrupt Border Guards Expose U.S. to Terrorist Risk
When people feel they’re not earning enough, or they simply get greedy, you’ve got a problem. There’s a problem along the Mexican border with corrupt border guards and the U.S. needs to address it in a big way. By PIERRE THOMAS ABC NEWS The Federal Bureau of Investigation worries that corrupt U.S. officials at the…