By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF agents shot and wounded a suspect in suburban Washington in Prince William County Monday night, WUSA reported. The TV station reported that agents were wrapping up an investigation and moved in to make an arrest. However, the suspect tried fleeing in a car and attempted to hit the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com M. Chris Briese, the deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Team at Quantico, and who once oversaw the interrogation team for Saddam Hussein, is headed south to take charge of the bureau’s Charlotte Division, the FBI announced Monday. Briese joined the FBI in 1987 and was first stationed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has fired off a letter to families of the miners who were killed last April at the Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W. Va., saying that “you may be a victim of a federal crime,” the Charleston Gazette reported. The two-page, March 28 letter, signed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Among the die hard mobsters, the Mafia is more of a family to them than their real families. Case in point: The New York Daily News reports that the FBI is investigating the possibility that one-time Genovese family boss Dominick “Quiet Dom” Cirillo ordered a hit on his son Nicholas Mother’s…
By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan. At a hospital, the accused mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole was recovering from a tonsillectomy. Nearby, the alleged organizer of the 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Sunday stepped up its nationwide hunt for a 65-year-old, tattooed man suspected of placing a crude bomb at the Southeast Plaza Mall in Jefferson County, Colo. last Wednesday. The bomb never detonated. The Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force released five additional photographs of suspect Earl Albert Moore, who…
WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Ex-NBA Player Pleads Guilty in Va. to Fed Drug Charges (Washington Post) Appeals Court Reinstates Blackwater Case (Main Justice) Ala. Casino Owner Pleads Guilty (AP)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooooops! Alabama U.S. Attorney Leura Canary was “appalled” to find out an error allowed the public access to sealed confidential information filed by federal prosecutors on PACER, the online federal court records system, according to The Smoking Gun website. The system is accessed by defense attorneys, reporters, investigators, researches and government…
