By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III headed out to California earlier this week, not to let his hair down, but to meet in Silicon Valley with top executives from several companies including Facebook and Google to discuss a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users, the New…
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…
Between water boarding and withholding info from Congress, the CIA doesn’t really need more bad publicity. But here it is. Ex-CIA Chief Tenet Could Face Sanctions/gov photo By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON – A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former…
The Justice Department has sent out wiretap letters, which may indicate that this probe is over. Ex-Rep Curt Weldon was never charged. By WILLIAM BENDER Philadelphia Daily News PHILADELPHIA — Federal investigators were running wiretaps for months at a time in 2006 on then-U.S. Rep. Curton Weldon’s chief of staff and other members of his…
