By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — “It’s hard to promote black nationalism when you have a black man in the White House,” Thomas Bailey said on Jan. 6, 2009, weeks before Barack Obama was sworn in as the first African-American President of the United States. Bailey, a Maryland inmate serving life for murder,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Alabama isn’t exactly considered a hotbed of terrorism activity. But on Friday, an Uzbek national living in the U.S. pleaded in Birmingham, Ala., to providing material support to terrorist activities and threatening to kill President Obama — all as part of a federal sting. Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, of Uzbekistan, becomes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Secret Service agent Daniel Valencia’s drunken driving ordeal in Iowa has come to an end. The WCF Courier reports that Vaencia, who had gone to Decorah, Iowa ahead of President Obama’s visit last year, was sentenced Friday to two days in jail, but credited with time served. He was off-duty when…
By Kevin Johnson USA Today WASHINGTON – The U.S. government dispatched 55 prosecutors, FBI agents and analysts Friday to a new financial crimes enforcement unit focusing on home mortgage abuses that fueled the 2008 economic collapse. For the first time since the crisis, federal investigators will be joined by state law enforcement officials as part…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Truthfully, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, didn’t come close. Nonetheless, he was indicted by a D.C. federal grand jury on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate President Obama on Nov. 11. A 17-count indictment against Ortega-Hernandez, who has been in custody since his arrest November 16, also includes…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A wave of prisoners could be released this week as a result of a change in sentencing for crack cocaine violations. The Associated Press reports that nearly 2,000 federal prisoners will be eligible for early release Tuesday as a result of a bill signed into law by President Obama last year that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The seriousness of the screw up with ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious has apparently not been lost at the White House. “People who have screwed up will be held accountable, President Obama told reporter Jake Tapper on ABC’s “Nightline.” “Our overarching goal consistently has been to say we’ve got a responsibility…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On tv, radio and on the Internet, pro and con opinions are rapidly cropping up over the assassination in Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric. Plenty folks in the U.S. were simply elated. Period. But others are questioning whether the U.S. has stepped over the line by assassinating the…
