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University Study Plays Down Radicalization of the American Muslim
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Not everyone is sounding the sirens about the radicalization of American Muslims. A new study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill says the threat has been overstated, the Associated Press reported. The study identified 139 American Muslims accused of terrorist plots or violence…
Mobster in Tony Soprano Terrority Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just in case you needed a reminder, Yes, the New Jersey mob isn’t just committing crimes on the Sopranos. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Andrew Merola, 42, the reputed leader of a North Jersey faction of the Gambino crime family, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Newark to heading up an organization involved…
Courtney Evans — FBI Liaison to Hoover and the Kennedys — Dies at Age 95
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A historic link to the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover and JFK and Robert Kennedy is gone. Courtney A. Evans, 95, a high ranking FBI official who was a liaison between Hoover and the Kennedy’s, died last month of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Naples, Fla., the Washington Post reported….
Commentary: I’ll Say it Again: Don’t Bother Charging the Salahis — Move On
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — I’ll say it again, as I did recently: the feds shouldn’t waste their time trying to figure out whether to criminally charge the famous White House party crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi. It’s a waste of time, and a distraction from the task at hand: plugging up all the…
Las Vegas Fed Courthouse Shooter Had Violent Criminal Past
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Perhaps it should come as no big shock that Johnny Lee Wicks, the man who killed one court security officer and wounded a deputy Marshal in the Las Vegas federal courthouse on Monday, had a violent criminal past. The Associated Press is reporting that Wicks, 66, served 12 to 15 years…
Arizona Border Patrol Agent Shoots and Kills Illegal Immigrant
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border patrol agent in southern Arizona on Monday shot and killed an illegal immigrant who allegedly threw rocks at the agent, the Associated Press reported. Attributing information to Border Patrol spokesman Omar Candelaria, AP reported that the incident happened when the agent and his dog encountered the illegal immigrant…
Head of Newark FBI Weysan Dun to Take Charge of Omaha Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Weysan Dun, who has headed the FBI’s Newark office, is leaving the east coast for the Midwest where he’ll take charge of the Omaha Division, the FBI announced Monday. Dun started out with the FBI in 1982 and worked in the San Francisco, Omaha, and Chicago Divisions, where he…