By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. law enforcement officials continue to trek to Israel to learn a thing or two about dealing with terrorism and homeland security. The latest group included Assistant D.C. police chief Diane Groomes and U.S. Park Police Deputy Chief Robert MacLean of the U.S. Park Police, the Associated Press reported. The week-long…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A series of “suspicious letters” with white powder have been turning up at several Israeli consulates over the past few days, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “There’s a lot of white powder letters that are going to Israeli consulates around the country,” Chris Allen of the FBI said late Tuesday. “There…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Elliot Doxer has become Massachusetts’ first ever individual prosecuted for foreign economic espionage, according to a statement from the FBI. Doxer was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement and electronic monitoring on Tuesday, as well as fined $25,000, after providing trade secrets to an undercover…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. terrorist data base watch could get quite a few new names if it’s up to four Jewish Congress members. The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports that the four Congress members wrote to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking that they place…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Maryland scientist busted in an FBI sting in 2009 for attempting to spy for Israel, pleaded guilty Wednesday in D.C. federal court to one count of attempted espionage, the Associated Press reported. Stewart D. Nozette, 54, was charged in 2009 with giving sensitive government information to an undercover FBI agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man has copted a plea to trying to spy for Israel. Elliot Doxer, 43, an employee of a high-tech company, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston federal court to foreign economic espionage for providing trade secrets over an 18-month period to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Demjanjuk, the suspected Nazi death camp guard, was convicted in Munich on Thursday of helping force roughly 28,000 Jews to death during World War II, the New York Times reported. The 91-year-old retired American autoworker was then sentenced to five years in prison, but was released pending his appeal. His…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Attorney Gen. Ramsey Clark, who served on Saddam Hussein’s defense team, and has seldom shied away from controversy, was in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for what the Associated Press described as a “solidarity mission.” AP reported that on the first day of the three-day trip Clark met with Hamas Prime…
