It’s about time: Federal prosecutors said Friday they are investigating whether there was “willful criminal activity” by the company that operates the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an accident last month. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of West Virginia said in a letter that investigators are looking into […]
From ABC: Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News. Authorities say an explosive team is on the way to the airport, and that while the presence of explosives […]
And today another crazy gets bagged: The FBI arrested a northern California man Wednesday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Charges against the man have yet to be disclosed, but they are expected to be filed in federal court […]
The carnage continues, this time in Alabama: Two women and their children were shot to death this morning at a Greenhill residence, according to friends of the victims’ family. Identities of the victims have not been released by law enforcement officials, but they have confirmed four people are dead. Family friends say the victims are […]
From the Bush legacy of “winning hearts and minds”: The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Officials say the […]
Yesterday the wingnuts were quick to pin the blame of the Times Square bombing on the “anti-war left”. Now news comes out that the “anti-war” letters received by members of Congress yesterday was not connected to the bombing: There’s apparently no link between the bombing of an military recruiting station in New York’s Times Square […]
Every hour this story seems to multiply now. The latest from Brian Ross shows now that there could very well be criminal charges: In addition to explicit sexual language, former Congressman Mark Foley’s Internet messages also include repeated efforts to get the underage recipient to rendezvous with him at night. “I would drive a few […]
Well things are really heating up in DC: Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of the CIA’s outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency’s third ranking official, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA’s inspector general, said […]
From today’s New York Times comes a story that gives the sense we may have more “Patriot Act” style arguments but this time it is over cell phones. Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset. In recent years, law […]
It seems the Bush family just can not catch a break (a short pause for a moment of awww). The following was reported by the Associated Press today: Jeb Bush’s son arrested for public intoxication, resisting arrest AUSTIN John Ellis Bush, the youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was arrested early Friday and charged […]