By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A new report concludes that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attack, killed abducted Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported. The paper reported that Asra Q. Nomani, a former Journal reporter who was friends with Pearl,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By the FBI’s account, the anthrax case that triggered a wave of panic in this nation in 2001 with the death of five people, has been solved. But not all are as convinced as the FBI that the real culprit is government scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in July 2008…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For a while, during the public corruption trial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in downtown Chicago, the only sure conviction appeared to involve defendant Douglas Belkin, a Wall Street Journal reporter. In July, the 42-year-old reporter was arrested while covering the trial of Blagojevich and his brother Robert, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has fired off a letter to the Wall Street Journal disputing a guest column which questioned the FBI’s conclusion that scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001. The column concluded that Ivins was in all likelihood not the real culprit. “Monday’s opinion…
