http://youtu.be/Bylhlx6jrKU OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Rebel Flag Still Flying in Black S.C. Neighborhood (AP) Cops Object to LA Times Probe Into Pensions (Courthouse News Service) House Judiciary Chair Questions Dual Role of Acting ATF Director (Main Justice) More Ammunition to Criticize NYPD Counterterrorism Force (Spy Talk) Judge in Cash for Kids Scheme Gets 17.5 Years…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Associated Press has obtained confidential documents that show the New York cops collected intelligence on more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and around New York. AP reported that the department used undercover officers and informants to canvas the Islamic population of New York. AP wrote that the…
By Len Levitt NYPD Confidential The Justice Department’s bullseye on the FBI and NYPD via a grand jury probe into leaks in terrorism cases appears to have been prompted a year ago by a news story about an Al Qaeda mastermind, sources said. The story was an Associated Press exclusive from Washington about the impending…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Friction is mounting between the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and New York police. Radio station WNYC reports that the FBI’s JTTF chose not to get involved in a case involving two New York men allegedly involved in a plot to blow up a local synagogue because it was problematic, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Brooklyn fed judge is none too happy with the Justice Department and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. in a case involving the murder of two New York police detectives, the NY Daily News reported. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis “bristled” on Tuesday when expressing his displeasure that the Justice Department…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who once was considered for the top spot at the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, got some bad news Thursday. The 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his four year sentence, saying the judge was fair, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John McNally: Hero cop or mob associate? Perhaps both. Federal authorities have filed court papers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that the retired New York cop, now 76, worked with the late mobster John Gotti’s hired gun Joseph Watts on extortion and money laundering crimes for years, the New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The talk among law enforcement on Wednesday was that the New York police were trying to distance themselves and blame the FBI for losing the surveillance of car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad. The media was also pointing to it as a flaw in what still remains a remarkable case…
