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Atty. Gen. Hones Political Ear
Eric Holder is struggling with a typical dilemma in Washington: He’s a nice guy and he’s trying to stay a nice, decent guy while dealing with all the politics. The Obama administration wants to have an independent Justice Department, unlike the one run by Alberto Gonzales. But the administration doesn’t want to put up a…
ATF-Postal Had Investigated Ala. Biology Prof in 1993 Mail Bombing to Harvard Med Prof
Prof. Amy Bishop/university photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to think of a biology teacher as a dangerous person. Boring? Long winded? Possibly. But dangerous? Well, not only did biology professor Amy Bishop allegedly kill three colleagues and wound three more in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday,…
Ex-FBI Agent Says Shooting Detroit Imam 20 Times Was Justified
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells the Detroit News that he thinks agents acted appropriately when they fatally shot an imam 20 times during an October raid in Dearborn, Mi, after the imam shot and killed an FBI dog. “Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly…
Christmas Day Bomber Read Rights 9 Hours — Not 50 Minutes– After His Arrest, Administration Says
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The political bickering and posturing over the questioning of the Christmas Day bomber continued in true Washington fashion Sunday. Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, who some may view as being on a campaign to prop up or save his legacy, went on ABC and said the administration should have considered…
Ex-FBI Agent and Justice Official Allan Kornblum Who Helped Create Surveillance Act
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Allan Kornblum, 71, a Florida federal magistrate, an ex-FBI agent who worked on civil rights cases in the 1960s, and a Justice Department official credited with writing key passages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), died last week of cancer in Gainesville, Fla., the Washington Post reported. Kornblum,…
Column: The Rich Irony of the Fall of a Louisiana State Sen. and His Ties to Bill Jefferson
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes public corruption — particularly in Louisiana — has a way of making you snicker — at least for a moment. The sentencing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans of ex-State Sen. Derrick Shepherd on Thursday to 37 months in prison for money laundering made me think of the rich…
FBI and Justice Likely to Consult With Intelligence Community on Miranda Rights
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After all the unnecessary political grandstanding, the administration is doing what it probably would have done anyways in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing incident. The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, one of Washington’s premier reporters, writes that the Justice Department and FBI will “consult with the intelligence community…