Reporter James Risen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department and the New York Times have had their fair share of battles in court over testifying. The latest: Fed prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., have subpoenaed Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen to testify against a former CIA operative who is awaiting trial,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes leak investigation fade into the sunset, never to be heard again. That appears to be the case with the Justice Department, which has quietly dropped the criminal investigation into a lawyer who admitted leaking information about President George W. Bush’s top-secret warrantless wiretapping program to The New York…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A new book penned by New York Times senior financial writer Diana B. Henriques concludes that swindler Bernie Madoff’s immediate family was unaware of the fraud he was perpetrating. A review in the New York Times on the book “Wizard of Lies” says of Madoff’s crimes: “In some ways it was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An ex-CIA officer involved in a classified clandestine operation involving Iran was arrested Thursday in St. Louis on charges of leaking classified information to a reporter, the Justice Department announced. Jeffrey A. Sterling, 43, of O’Fallon, Mo., was charged with six counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Perhaps one of the more ironic things about Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban being accused of insider trading is that he bank rolls a website called Sharesleuth.com, which bills itself as “an independent Web-based reporting aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate chicanery.” On Tuesday, Cuban was back in…
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. Kessler has authored several books including “The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI”. By Ronald Kessler Newsmax.com When it comes to the FBI, The New York Times has the same story line: The bureau is either incompetent, over-reactive, or spying on innocent Americans. In most cases,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Conservative columnist William Safire was the subject of an FBI wiretap for four months while he worked for the National Security Council in 1969, according to FBI files released this month. The FBI said the Nixon White House, concerned about leaks of classified material to reporters, asked the FBI…
The New York Times Editorial Page An election is coming, so the Republicans are trying to scare Americans by making it appear as if the Democrats don’t care about catching or punishing terrorists. It’s nonsense, of course, but effective. The be-very-afraid approach helped former President George W. Bush ram laws through Congress that chipped away…
