By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from correcting a court filing that undercut the FBI’s conclusion that Army researcher Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax letter attacks in 2001, PBS Frontline, McClatchy and ProPublica reported in a joint story. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley of West Palm Beach,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com OUCH! Make it stop. It’s becoming all too painful to see the Congressional probe into ATF’s highly-flawed operation dubbed Fast and Furious. Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been leading the charge into the investigation of the operation that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all…
Andrew Gumbel, a Los Angeles-based journalist, is writing a book about the Oklahoma City bombing, due out from William Morrow next April. By Andrew Gumbel Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page America’s violent far right would have no difficulty recognizing the tell-tale signatures of Friday’s killing spree in Norway — and not just because they would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As recently as 2009, the FBI was presenting materials about Islam to new recruits that former agent Mike German thought was a little shocking and might lead to abuse, according to the website Talking Points Memo. “Certainly I was concerned with the approach the FBI was taking post-9/11, which is why…
See Book: “Two-Edged Sword”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and…
