April 2010
Column: 15 Years After the Oklahoma Bombing, We Must Not Forget the Potential of Homegrown Terrorism
This column was reprinted from a year ago. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — One Friday, two days after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, I was sitting at my desk at the Detroit News in downtown Detroit when I got a tip that the FBI was raiding a farmhouse in Michigan, and it had…
15 Years Later, Oklahoma Bomber’s Brother Keeps His Distance from Limelight
By Allan Lengel For AOL New Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, James Nichols — whose younger brother Terry was convicted in the case — isn’t really talking, except to say he’s still an organic farmer in Michigan. “I’m not commenting unless you’ve got a big checkbook,” Nichols told AOL News in a phone…
Do the Troops Trust Ex-FBI Agent Jody Weis — Chicago’s Police Chief?
It’s not easy being an outsider in a police department with a rich tradition of people rising through the ranks. It also doesn’t help to have come from the FBI. Have the troops accepted ex-FBI agent Jody Weis as Chicago’s Police chief? He says yes, but tells the Chicago News Cooperative:”There will be a certain…
Mayor Bloomberg Urges Atty. Gen. Holder To Decide Soon on Venue for 9/11 Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — better known in the N.Y. tabloids as “Bloomy” — wants Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to make up his mind already about where he’ll try five 9/11 suspects including the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the New York Post reports. Quoting a response to…
5 Ex-Blackwater Execs Indicted on Weapons Charges
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Five ex-executives from Blackwater, the highly controsersial security firm, were charged Friday with illegally acquiring automatic weapons and filing false documents. Some weapons were gifts to the Kingdom of Jordan in hopes of landing a lucrative contract to build and run a training center, authorities said. The 15-count federal indictment out…
Weekends Series on Crime History: Oklahoma Bomber Tim McVeigh
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Atty. Gen. Holder Continues to Push Back Against Military-Only Trials for Terrorists
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. continues to bark back at critics who want all foreign terrorism suspects to be prosecuted in military courts. In a speech Thursday in Washington he said proposed legislation in the Senate to require such a policy would “seriously harm our national security”, the Washington…