By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The star power of the late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith lives on. She’s making headlines again after the Associated Press reported that the FBI had investigated in 2000 and 2001 whether she was involved in a murder-for hire plot to kill her late wealthy husband’s son E. Pierce Marshall during…
With troop reductions in Iraq, the U.S. will be hiring more and more private security guards. The Blackwater story should give pause to the indiscriminate use of private guards in war-torn areas. By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Several Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqis in a busy…
This murder is just another sign of just how out of control things are south of the border. The first agent assigned to this case was killed last month. By Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico— Gunmen killed the aide of a Mexican federal agent investigating the death of a crime reporter — a month after…
Nearly six years ago Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was found face down in a creek with multiple stab wounds in Lancaster Co., Pa. Some think it was a suicide. Others say it was murder. Some say the investigation is active. Others say it’s not. Reporter Jeffrey Anderson looks into the matter.
Opinions vary on whether the FBI could have stopped this from happening. But outspoken ex-FBI agent Colleen Rowley of post-9/11 fame, seems to think the agency could have at least tried harder. Is she right? By Zachary Roth TPMmuckraker We told you earlier about questions over whether the FBI responded aggressively enough to detailed information…
Yes, people make mistakes. But this is a bad one. Hopefully the Marshal’s office will learn from this. The upside: the outcome could have been worse. By Tricia Bishop Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — A fight broke out (last week) in Baltimore’s federal courthouse after U.S. marshals mistakenly placed a witness in the same holding cell…
Authorities suspect these are drug related murders. The thing is, the drug wars in Mexico aren’t getting out of hand, they’re already are out of hand and the U.S. needs to step it up and get involved before more and more of it spills over into the U.S. By MARINA MONTEMAYOR Associated Press Writer PDT…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire The Guardian newspaper in London is reporting that the Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has accepted an offer from the FBI to help probe the murders of two human rights workers. The human rights workers, Oscar Kamau Kingara and Paul Oulo, who were highly critical of police killings, were shot to…
