Miss. U.S. Atty. Office Targeted Islamic Store Owners For Terrorism

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the post-9/11 era, some Islamic groups complained about being indiscriminately targeted simply because of their heritage. Now The Jackson Clarion Ledger is reporting that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oxford, Miss., targeted “convenience store operators in north Mississippi, many of Middle Eastern descent, despite a lack of any connection to…

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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…

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