By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning that the administration planned to use both civilian and military commissions to fight terrorism. In a prepared statement, he said: “Let me be clear: this Administration will use every tool available to fight terrorism. That includes both…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The way fed prosecutors see it, ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich can’t endlessly blab and blab on TV and then worry about being hurt by pretrial publicity. On Tuesday, the prosecutors asked that a key document detailing evidence in their public corruption case be made public in its entirety, the Chicago Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in Philly convicted drug kingpin Maurice Phillips on Tuesday of hiring a hitman to kill a woman who was cooperating with the FBI in a case against him, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Phillips, 38, who ran a multimillion-dollar cocaine-distribution network stretching from Texas to New York, could get…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The FBI is investigating a police beating of an unarmed University of Maryland College student at the College Park campus on March 3 following a basketball game victory over Duke, the Washington Post reported. Embarrassing video has been airing on nationwide tv that shows three Prince George’s County police…
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Baltimore police detective on a DEA Task Force pleaded guilty Tuesday in Baltimore federal court to stealing Baltimore police funds, submitting a false claims to DEA for an informant and stealing a seized diamond watch, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities alleged that detective Mark J. Lunsford, 40, …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents seized suspected crack cocaine and steroids, weapons, gas masks and a book of Adolph Hitler’s speeches during raids late last month of the Michigan-based Christian militia group known as the Hutaree, according to the Associated Press. The AP reported that search warrant records also showed agents found hand grenade…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drug war in Mexico just got more complicated. The Associated Press reports that the Gulf and La Familia drug cartels in Mexico, which were bitter rivals, have joined forces in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas to try and eliminate a gang of hitmen known as the Zetas gang. The…
