By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Some believe Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has become pinata for the Republicans, and that may be true again this week. The Washington Post reports that Holder could take some punches from Republicans when he appears Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee at 9:30 a.m. The paper reports that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 48-year-old man who peppered Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with dozens of threatening phone calls over the health care bill, isn’t going anywhere. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman in San Francisco decided Monday that Gregory Lee Giusti should be held without bond, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It never hurts for the officialdom of Washington to go beyond the Beltway and see the the rest of the country. FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday did just that, and headed to the heartland to visit the FBI’s Springfield, Ill. office to thank employees and reiterate his agenda, the Associated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A highly respected and tenacious former Wayne County prosecutor, who prosecuted many high-profile cases, has been picked by the Michigan Attorney General to investigate the FBI’s fatal shooting last October of a Detroit Imam during a raid, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Attorney General Mike Cox picked former Wayne County…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met Sunday in Nigeria with top officials from Africa and the International Civil Aviation Organization to discuss ways to improve aviation security worldwide, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “The attempted terrorist attack on Dec. 25 demonstrated that international terrorist threats must be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In a rare move, the family of Edward M. Kennedy will be allowed to raise objections before thousand of pages of the late Senator’s FBI file are released, the Boston Globe reports. The paper reports that the the FBI is providing the “uncommon” opportunity so that the privacy rights…
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Agent George H. Franklin at shooting range in 1930s/ photo from Wack’s website By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sure, there’s been endless stories about the many gangster of the 1930s like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Bonnie and Clyde. But what about the FBI agents who battled the criminals of that era, says Larry Wack,…
