Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men were arrested Monday on charges of conspiracy to kidnap, torture, rape and kill woman and children in an elaborate, twisted plot, the FBI announced. Charged were Richard Meltz, chief of police for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Bedford, Massachusetts Veteran Affairs Medical Center, and Robert Christopher Asch,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man convicted of torturing and killing a DEA agent in 1985 died Tuesday at a federal prison in Florida, the AP reports. Ruben Zuno Arce was serving a life sentence in the death of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena, who was kidnapped and murdered by drug lords in western Mexico in…
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News A last-minute ruling Wednesday by a federal judge blocking the government from using a key witness in a major terrorism case is expected to heat up the already contentious debate over whether to use civilian courts in such cases, legal experts say. “It will certainly fuel the debate,” said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Chicago police commander was convicted Monday in U.S. District Court of perjury and obstruction of justice linked to denials that he participated in torturing suspects in custody decades ago, the Justice Department said. Jon Burge, 60, now of Apollo Beach, Fla., was convicted by a Chicago federal jury, which…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The allegation came on a tissue. The Associated Press is reporting that the five Washington, D.C. area men suspected of terrorism, who are being held in Pakistan, scribbled allegations on a tissue that they were subjected to electric shocks and other torture by the FBI and Pakistani police. The AP reported…
Here’s what Alberto Gonzales originally said: “We obviously worked very hard during the Bush administration to establish ground rules to establish parameters about how to deal with terrorists, because we’re a nation of laws, and if people go beyond that, I think it is legitimate to question and examine that conduct to ensure people are…
It’s too bad this happens in every administration: Some high-ranking people only seem to be willing to speak up after it’s all over. The lesson here: express yourself to the powers that be when you’re there, not when you’ve left and decided to cash in with a book. By Michael Scherer Time WASHINGTON — Former…
