DEA Raids Wrong Suburban Detroit Home; Was Home of Retired Military Translator
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FBI Returns Stolen Ancient Artifacts to Iraqis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Terracotta plaques and other ancient artifacts stolen in Iraq by defense contractors in 2004 were returned Thursday by the FBI to the Iraqi government in a ceremony at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. The FBI said it seized the invaluable items during a 2006 investigation. The items included two pottery…
FBI’s Chris Briese Who Oversaw Interrogation Team for Saddam Hussein to Head Up Charlotte Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com M. Chris Briese, the deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Team at Quantico, and who once oversaw the interrogation team for Saddam Hussein, is headed south to take charge of the bureau’s Charlotte Division, the FBI announced Monday. Briese joined the FBI in 1987 and was first stationed…
Retired ATF Official Bernie La Forest Pens 2nd Book
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bernie La Forest, who headed up ATF offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles before retiring, has just penned his second suspense novel — “In The Red Dragon’s Shadow.” The murder mystery is chock full of international intrigue and involves the ATF, Detroit Police, guns, radical Muslims from Iraq,…
Filmmaker Michael Moore Defends WikiLeaks Founder and Posts $$$
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial and seldom-at-a-loss-for-words filmmaker Michael Moore is stepping into the fray and defending WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — and putting up money too. In a statement posted on his website Tuesday morning, Moore wrote: “Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to…
Fed’s Cases Against Blackwater “Beginning to Fall Apart”, NY Times Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm that became a toxic symbol of America in Afghanistan and Iraq, may be getting a bigger break than it ever imagined. James Risen of the New York Times reports that after nearly four years the federal government’s investigations and prosecutions against the Blackwater Worldwide…
NY Times Editorial: A Reminder to the FBI
By The New York Times Editorial Page The day after Thanksgiving, 2002, was a slow day in the Pittsburgh office of the F.B.I., so a supervisor sent a special agent to a rally against the threatened war in Iraq to look for any terrorism suspects who might be there, just to ”see what they are…
Book Review: Justice Dept. Atty. Co-Authors Must Read Book on Abu Ghraib
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. “The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed—American Soldiers on Trial” by Christopher Graveline and Michael Clemens. The book is available at Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and Borders. By Ross Parker…