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FBI Letting Terror Plots Develop More to Get Offenders on More Serious Charges
The FBI seems to be taking a new approach to terrorism plots. Instead of quickly picking up people, often on lesser charges, authorities are letting the plots unfold a little more so they can charge suspected terrorists with more serious offenses. The tactic seems to have worked in recent cases around the country. By ED…
Some Think Small-Time Denver Atty In Over His Head in Latest Terrorism Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is it petty jealousy or just honesty? Some lawyers think that small-time Denver attorney Art Folsom is in over his head representing Najibullah Zazi in the biggest terrorism case in recent times. Stephanie Simon of the Wall Street reports that Folsom has made a career out representing clients for drug possession,…
Legal Experts Chastise FBI For Not Disclosing Sooner Agent’s Sexual Affair With Informant in Jefferson Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Transparency, transparency, transparency. And yes, disclosure. That’s often the best policy when the federal government takes a case to trial, particularly a big one. But Bruce Alpert and Jonathan Tilove, reporters at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, have put together an intriguing report on how the FBI failed to disclose…
FBI Shuts Down Bridge in Probe of Police Shootings in 2005
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There were signs over the weekend that the FBI was still very actively probing the New Orleans police related shooting deaths six days after Katrina in 2005. The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that the FBI shut down the infamous Danziger Bridge for several hours Saturday to scour for evidence where…
FBI Releases Soundless Videotapes of OK Bombing Aftermath
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The infamous bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 sent a collective shiver up America’s spine, a moment that will never be forgotten, particularly for those who lost family, were injured or had to run for their lives in the immediate aftermath. It was a…
NYPD vs FBI: The Hatfield and McCoys of Counterterrorism
Under the category of “can’t we all get along”, comes the ungoing saga of the FBI and the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit. The bottom line is: both need to work together. Ex-NYPD official Michael Sheehan offers his view of it all. By MICHAEL A. SHEEHAN NYPD Former Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism New York…
Dallas Morning News Editorial Praises FBI in Texas Terror Plot
Fountain Place Skyscraper By Dallas Morning News Editorial Page DALLAS — The FBI depicts Hosam Maher Husein Smadi as a blustering big talker who espoused anti-American jihadist sentiments over the Internet. But the 19-year-old Jordanian became more than an angry loudmouth, the FBI says, when he tried to detonate what he thought was a car…
FBI Probing American Youth Involvement in U.N. Bombing in Somalia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in the Post 9/11 era have long worried about people training in al Qaeda camps and coming to the U.S. But the Associated Press reports a disturbing trend of Somalian American youth returning home to fight for an Islamist militia linked to al Qaeda. The latest, the wire service…