By Allan Lengel For AOL News In New Orleans, a town known for its jambalaya, jazz and hospitality, it hasn’t been difficult over the years to find folks willing to serve up some harsh words about their often-maligned and scandal-plagued police department. That may change — even with the latest federal indictments for the shootings…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Walter Kendall Myers — aka Agent 202 — the former State Department official, who spied for Cuba along with his wife for nearly 30 years, will join the many other convicted spies in American prisons. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Friday sentenced Myers to life in prison…
Update: The Associated Press reported that Yahya Wehelie returned to the U.S. on Saturday. By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON — A Virginia man who had been in no-fly list hell for months will now be allowed to return to the U.S., the Associated Press reported. Yahya Wehelie spent 18 months in Yemen. In May, he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As absurd as this sounds, this might be a “must have” for your cell phone. The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., is offering ringtones on iPhones with the FBI recordings of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is on trial in Chicago on public corruption charges, USA Today reports. The paper reports the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The controversy over harsh interrogation techniques under the Bush years surfaced again Thursday on Capitol Hill. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi.), head of the House Judiciary, released a transcript to the Justice Department showing former Justice Department official Jay S. Bybee told Congressional investigators in May that the CIA may…
