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Some Federal Agents “Anguished” Over ATF Operation That Let Guns into Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A variety of federal agent voiced “anguished objections” over an ATF operation that allowed guns to be smuggled in Mexico so they could be traced to the top levels of the drug cartels, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reported that the operation known as “Operation Fast and Furious” lost…
Ex-CIA Official Gets 5 Years-Plus in Prison for Sexual Assault in Algeria on Embassy Property
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-CIA official Andrew Warren, who pleaded guilty last year to drugging and sexually assaulting an Algerian woman in 2008 on embassy property in Algiers, and using cocaine while possessing a firearm in Virginia, was sentenced Thursday to five years and five months in prison. Warren’s sentencing in U.S. District Court in…
U.S. Has Proof Ex-FBI Agent Who Went Missing in Iran in 2007 is Still Alive, AP Reports
UPDATE: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton issued this statement on Thursday:”As we approach the fourth anniversary of Bob Levinson’s disappearance, we have received recent indications that Bob is being held somewhere in southwest Asia. As the Government of Iran has previously offered its assistance in this matter, we respectfully request the Iranian government to undertake…
NY FBI Cuts Agents Probing Mafia Weeks After Big Bust
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mob reporter Jerry Capeci of the website Gang Land News writes in a story posted Thursday: “Did the Justice Department just orchestrate a bait-and-switch scam on a gullible, eager-to-believe citizenry? Six weeks after the feds loudly proclaimed that they are still pursuing mobsters with a vengeance, the FBI has quietly cut…
ICE Still Investigating Who Leaked Immigration Info About President’s Aunt Before 2008 Election
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Who leaked the info on President Obama’s aunt’s immigration status days before the 2008 election campaign? Well, according to the website Talking Points Memo, the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility still wants to know. The Office of Professional Responsibility still has an “ongoing law enforcement investigation”, Freedom of Information…
Appeals Court Uphold Murder Conviction of Ex-Bost FBI Agent John Connolly
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rogue Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who was faulted for getting too close to his mob informants, will remain behind bars. The Miami Herald reports that the Florida Third District of Appeal on Wednesday upheld his 2008 conviction in the murder of Miami Jai-Alai executive John Callahan in 1982. He was…
President Nominates 3 U.S. Attorneys and 3 U.S. Marshals
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday nominated three U.S. Attorneys and three U.S. Marshals. The nominees for U.S. Attorney include Charlotte lawyer Thomas Gray Walker for North Carolina’s Eastern District, assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams for the Northern District of Mississippi and S. Amanda Marshall. So far, according to the Justice…
Calif. Student Sues FBI for Putting GPS Tracking Device on Car
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Egyptian-American college student in California filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday, saying the agency violated his civil rights when it secretly placed a GPS tracking device on his car, the Associated Press reported. Yasir Afifi, a student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., who insists the…