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Allan Lengel

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A former Washington Post reporter, Allan is editor of Tickle the Wire, a Web site that reports on the latest developments in federal law enforcement news.

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'Virtual Fence' to Protect Our Border in Doubt

posted: 1 day 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON (March 17) -- The fate of the once-touted "virtual fence" designed to protect the nation's Southwest border along Mexico from terrorists, gun-toting drug dealers and illegal immigrants is ...

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US Consulate Victims in Mexico 'Targeted,' FBI Says

posted: 3 days 5 hours ago

WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate slain in the violent Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday were not victims of a drive-by shooting as first reported, the FBI ...

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The FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Turns 60

posted: 6 days 12 hours ago

(March 12) -- Mir Aimal Kasi had earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and Brad Garrett, a mild-mannered but dogged FBI agent out of Washington, wanted him badly. Kasi, a Pakistan ...

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Lawyer Doubts Case Against Anthrax Suspect

posted: 8 days 14 hours ago

(March 10) -- Just weeks before government scientist Bruce Ivins' suicide, a grand jury was convening on the third floor of the federal courthouse, near the U.S. Capitol, looking into the 2001 anthra ...

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Lawsuit Says FBI Used Mafia Help in 1964 Probe

posted: 20 days 7 hours ago

(Feb. 26) - Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, serving 60 years for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that J. Edgar Hoover's F ...

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Some Doubt FBI Line That Scientist Sent Anthrax Letters

posted: 21 days 10 hours ago

(Feb. 25) -- Not everyone is buying the FBI's finding that government scientist Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer. The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspectors announced Friday that they w ...

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Ex-NY Police Chief Bernard Kerik Gets 4-Year Sentence

posted: 28 days 8 hours ago

(Feb. 18) -- Disgraced former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who became a heroic figure after the Sept. 11 attack and who almost became a member of President George W. Bush's Cabinet, is ...

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Homeland Security Officers Lost Many Firearms

posted: 28 days 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Feb. 18) -- We expect the Department of Homeland Security to protect us from the evil-doers of the world -- not to provide them with guns. But an inspector general report released this we ...

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Agent Sues ATF for Trouble With Hells Angels

posted: 34 days 10 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Feb. 12) -- From one vantage point, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Jay Dobyns still worries about the Hells Angels coming after him. From another, it's his empl ...

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Bernard Kerik: Evil Lawbreaker or Family Guy?

posted: 36 days 12 hours ago

(Feb. 10) -- Who will U.S. District Judge Stephen C. Robinson see when he peers down at ex-New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik during sentencing Feb. 18 in White Plains, N.Y.? An egotisti ...

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