By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Trades in sports like the NBA often garner plenty of attention. But this trade is different: spies for spies. The New York Daily News reports that a plan is in the works to send the 10 Russian spies arrested last week home in exchange for imprisoned spies who did work for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s pretty typical for Washington politicians to leave public office and cash in the chips in the private sector. Sometimes they go a little too far. Federal authorities say ex-Michigan Congressman Mark Siljander, who was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, went too far. And on Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to…
By William Rashbaum New York Times A feared and elusive senior Al Qaeda leader and three other operatives were indicted in Brooklyn on Wednesday in the suicide bomb plot to attack New York’s subways last year and what prosecutors said was a related terror plot in Britain, the Justice Department announced in Washington. The indictment,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say, no one in the Whitehouse including President Obama, Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod were involved in drug trafficking in Texas — methamphetamine to be exact. Nonetheless, a press release issued Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney in Texas seemed a bit curious: “Whitehouse, Texas Man Guilty of Drug Trafficking…
Jeffrey Hayworth Knox may look like an altar boy, but he’s gone up against some serious evil in the terrorism world and prevailed. William Rashbaum of the New York Times tells us about Knox. By William Rashbaum New York Times In March, the Justice Department released a lengthy list of its successful terrorism prosecutions since…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com JERUSALEM — Call it a case of very different worlds colliding. The top newspaper Haaretz here in Israel reports that Mexican authorities thwarted a plan by the Lebanese group Hezbollah to set up a network in Latin America and use Mexican Nationals with ties to Lebanon to go after Israel and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is cracking down on workers’ access to certain materials on the web. CBS New reports that the agency sent out an email on Friday saying that as of July 1 it was blocking workers from having computer access to websites with “controversial opinions” and other materials….
