By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Blackwater, the controversial security contractor that got in a whole lot of legal trouble for its deadly cowboy antics in Iraq, is trying once again to scrub clean that bad image. First it tried by changing its name to Xe Services LLC. But inevitably most articles included the phrase “formerly known…
“The jerk store called, they’re running out of you.” George Costanza, Seinfeld By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The above quote may be applicable to a Washington state man who was convicted Tuesday of filing over $20 billion in false liens against federal officials including fed prosecutors. The 2-day trial ended when Ronald James Davenport, of…
Ex-FBI Mary Ellen O’Toole is the author of the new book: ” Dangerous Instincts.” By Monica Hesse Washington Post WASHINGTON — The man sitting in front of Mary Ellen O’Toole was, she says, a well-mannered guy. “He was low-key. He was nice. He didn’t swear.” He was very proud of his work, which he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What better way to show gratitude to the folks who protect your life than to charge them so they can protect your life? Makes sense? No! I don’t want to make a big deal out of this. After all, when you take into account the real costs of providing executive protection,…
By Len Levitt NYPD Confidential The Justice Department’s bullseye on the FBI and NYPD via a grand jury probe into leaks in terrorism cases appears to have been prompted a year ago by a news story about an Al Qaeda mastermind, sources said. The story was an Associated Press exclusive from Washington about the impending…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Florida authorities are working to add serial killer Ted Bundy’s DNA profile to the FBI’s national database by mid-August, a move that could help detectives in Tacoma, Wash., determine if Bundy was responsible for the abduction of 8-year-old girl Ann Marie Burr in 1961, The News Tribune reported The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge was none to happy to hear that the FBI intentionally failed for several hours to tell a man suspected of planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., why he had been arrested, the Associated Press reported. He was also not immediately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Good news for those who think the Transportation Security Administration has gone too far in its efforts to screen airline passengers. The Associated Press reports that TSA is installing news technology at some airports that will show a generic outline of s peson’s body instead of showing an image of the…
