Hackers apparently knew no bounds in the 2008 campaign. By Newsweek The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today. At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer…
Ex-FBI agent John Connolly was convicted in a long drawn out trial that was an embarrassment to the Boston FBI. By David Ovalle Miami Herald MIAMI — Jurors have found ex-FBI agent John Connolly guilty of second-degree murder for his role in helping Boston mobsters assassinate an accountant in South Florida in 1982. He was…
In one of the uglier moments of the 2008 campaign, these two men were arrested last week on a criminal complaint charging them with trying to kill Sen. Obama. Yesterday, the feds took the next step and had them indicted by a grand jury. By Lawrence Buser Memphis Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS — Two men arrested…
Now comes the mad stampede out the door. Julie L. Myers of ICE is the first high-level Bush appointee to resign in the post-election era. By Spencer Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON – Wasting little time after the election before jumping ship, Julie L. Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will leave the…
Prosecutors say Monzer al-Kassar not only sold weapons, but he sold them to terrorists who were out to kill Americans. By Benjamin Weiser New York Times NEW YORK — For more than 30 years, prosecutors say, Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian-born merchant, has been involved in illegal arms deals and money laundering. On Wednesday, as his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com America, meet the passenger from Hell! During a United flight from San Juan Puerto Rico to Chicago on Saturday, Maria Esther Castillo struck a female crew member “on the buttocks with the back of her hand”, swore and generally acted out of control, according to an affidavit by FBI agent Peter…
Following a time-tested strategy, the defense is going on the attack, trying to undermine a key government witness in the Ft. Dix terrorism trial. Will it work? Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. – Attorneys for five men accused of plotting to kill soldiers in New Jersey began cross-examining a key government informant Wednesday…
The government says Saifullah Anjum Ranjha thought he was helping out al Qaeda. Unfornuately for Ranjha he wasn’t helping himself out much. Now it’s off to prison. By Tricia Bishop Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — A Pakistani national with homes in Laurel and Washington, D.C., was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday in a Baltimore…
