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UPDATED: Report Says Army Could Have “Prevented” Anthrax Attacks in 2001 and Psychiatric Records Support FBI Findings That Bruce Ivins “Was Responsible”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more on the anthrax controversy. A court-ordered report by the Expert Behavorial Analysis Panel concluded the U.S. Army could have “anticipated” and “prevented” the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, and that a review of psychiatric records of suspect Bruce Ivins “does support the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)determination that he…
Ala. Fed Judge Threatens to Sanction Prosecutors for Withholding Documents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors aren’t scoring any points with a federal judge in a bingo vote-buying case in Montgomery, Ala. The Birmingham News reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel Jr. on Tuesday threatened to sanction fed prosecutors for failing to turn over documents relating to FBI wiretaps. He ordered the government to…
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…
Barry Bonds’ Trainer Refuses to Testify in Fed Court: Ordered Back to Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Barry Bonds slugfest began Tuesday with some drama as the baseball slugger’s trial got underway in federal court in San Francisco. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Bond’s boyhood friend and longtime weight trainer Greg Anderson back to prison Tuesday for the duration of the trial after he refused to…
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
Mexican Drug Traffickers Take Advantage of American-Funded Highway in El Salvador
By Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times DULCE de MARIA, El Salvador –The Mexican drug gangs rapidly infiltrating Central America call El Salvador “El Caminito,” the little pathway. Once a bystander in the region’s narco-business, this tiny country now finds itself enmeshed in an expanding drug trade, a shift brought on in part by the presence…