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Watchdog Group Sues Justice Dept. For Failing to Release Investigative Documents on Tom DeLay
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — wants to figure out why ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was never prosecuted federally. CREW filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in D.C. against the Justice Department for failing to release records of the…
Justice Dept. Atty-Overseas Prosecutorial Development
EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY, GS-905-14/15 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CRIMINAL DIVISION OFFICE OF OVERSEAS PROSECUTORIAL DEVELOPMENT, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING RESIDENT LEGAL ADVISORS IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 11-CRM-DET-003 The Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, seeks experienced Department of Justice (DOJ) trial attorneys or Assistant United States Attorneys or State…
FBI Still Uses Old Fashioned Cryptanalysts to Break Codes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’d think the art of manually cracking codes written in traditional forms of communication like letters would have faded along ago with J. Edgar Hoover. Not so. The FBI has posted a feature on its website which shows that its Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Record Unit (CRRU) — part of the bureau’s…
Bomb at Fed Building in Detroit Where FBI is Housed Sat For Weeks
Source: Bomb at Detroit Federal Building Sat for Weeks: MyFoxDETROIT.com
Border Patrol Agent Kills 19 Year Old in Arizona
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Details are very sketchy, but one thing was clear: A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 19-year-old man east of the Douglas port of entry Monday afternoon in Arizona, the Arizona Daily Star reported. FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson told the paper that the incident began when Douglas police went after…
ICE Official Gets One of the Toughest Sentences in Public Corruption Case: Nearly 18 Years
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to nearly 18 years in prison, one of the harshest sentences ever handed down in the U.S. in a public corruption case. Authorities said Constantine Peter Kallas, 40 of Alta Loma, Calif. was sentenced to 212…
Highest Ranking NY Cop on FBI’s JTTF Almost Transferred for Refusing to Share Classified Info With his Superiors at NYPD
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top New York cop on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force almost got transferred from the unit after he refused to share classified info with his superiors in the police department, the New York Daily News reported. But the FBI intervened and prevented the transfer of NYPD Deputy Chief James…
Ill. Man Says FBI Tried Getting Him to Go Undercover in Mosque to Get Off No-Fly List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 31-year-old Illinois man claims the FBI said it could remove him from the no-fly list if he agreed to go undercover at mosques, the Associated Press reported. He refused the offer. AP reported that Abe Mashal, a dog trainer from St. Charles, Ill., says the bureau said he landed on…