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Movie Director Is Critical of Upcoming J. Edgar Hoover Film
By MICHAEL CIEPLY New York Times LOS ANGELES — Larry Cohen has issues — 17 pages’ worth — with “J. Edgar,” the movie now being shot here by Clint Eastwood for Imagine Entertainment and Warner Brothers with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role as J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. Cohen is a writer and director who…
Ex-Ohio Judge Convicted of Lying to FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It could be prison time for a former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty in Ohio, who was convicted on Friday in federal court of 10 counts of lying to the FBI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. Authorities charged that she lied to agents investigating a political ally, then-County Auditor…
FBI Tries to Keep Unsolved Murder of Seattle Fed Prosecutor in Public Eye
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to keep the unsolved 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Crane Wales out in the public eye. The latest: The FBI has posted on its website a summary of the case along with Wales’ photo and reminder that the Justice Department is offering up to a…
FBI Casts Wide Net Under Relaxed Rules for Terror Probes
By Charlie Savage New York Times WASHINGTON — Within months after the Bush administration relaxed limits on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, the F.B.I. assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, a newly disclosed Justice Department document shows. In a vast majority of those cases,…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Gives Out Community Leadership Awards
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wr8YjpHW1A Here are some examples of the individuals and organizations selected to receive the award. An Arkansas woman who became a tireless advocate for the elderly after members of her family experienced nursing home abuse; An organization in Buffalo that provided resources and assistance to victims who came to light during an FBI human trafficking…
FBI Agent Gets 2 Years for Threatening Head of Dallas FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s off to prison for ex-FBI agent Carlos Ortiz Jr. who threatened to harm his estranged wife — an FBI analyst — and the head of the Dallas FBI. Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas on Friday sentenced Carlos, 49, to two years in prison after he pleaded…
Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover Movie to Film in D.C. This Weekend
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Signs of Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film on J. Edgar Hoover should be popping up in Washington this weekend. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that the film will shoot scenes on Saturday and Sunday involving Leonardo DiCaprio, who will play the big guy, J. Edgar Hoover. That’s all…
Scientists in Anthrax Case Still Have Doubts and Questions
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Like the JFK assassination, the mystery and the persistent questions about anthrax killings in 2001, won’t go away. The latest is a detailed article in the magazine WIRED, by Noah Shactman, who writes that scientists involved in helping the FBI crack the deadly mystery still have lingering doubts and questions about…