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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The FBI wants to capture Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger badly. Correction. Make that very badly. On Tuesday, the agency took things up a notch and invited the foreign press in Washington for a briefing on Bulger, 79, who’s wanted for a host of crimes including 19-counts of murder….
The legal combat over the combat in Iraq is already starting even before the indictments are unsealed for five Blackwater employees. By Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government…
A man who served more than 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit now faces illegal gambling charges. Any way you put it, here’s a man with an unlucky hand. By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Writer WOBURN, Mass.— A man once framed by the FBI for murder pleaded not guilty Friday to…
His sentence was delayed until January. But during a hearing Thursday in Miami, ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly accused the prosecutor of hiding evidence and denied having any role in a mob murder. By Rich Phillips CNN Senior Producer MIAMI, Fla. — Former FBI agent John Connolly, whose fall from celebrated mob-buster to paid gangland…
