All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Time:

f there's a sensitive investigation into the flaws of crime-fighters, the man the feds often call in to do the job is William H. Webster. Over the decades, the former FBI and CIA chief has headed numerous high-profile investigations into public agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department response to the 1992 Rodney King riots and the FBI's failure to catch Soviet and Russian mole Robert Hanssen.
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The Times of India:

The FBI team that visited India in the wake of the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba terror duo David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana has not only provided their links to the 26/11 attacks but also contacts with figures in Pakistan, including, possibly, serving officers of Pakistani army. (read the article)

The NY Times:

By 2002, investigators across the United States appeared to be closing in on Raj Rajaratnam, a wealthy hedge fund executive, for insider trading. (read the article)

The NY Times:
Two United Nations human rights officials urged the government of the Philippines on Thursday to pursue a thorough investigation of the election-related massacre in which 57 people were killed and to take measures to prevent such an atrocity from happening again. (read the article)

The NY Times:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. (read the article)

The Washington Times:
During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings. (read the article)

The NY Times:
The Afghan opium harvest is feeding a $65 billion global trade in heroin each year, which now kills many more people in NATO countries in a year than the number of NATO soldiers who have died on the battlefield in Afghanistan since 2001, Antonio Maria Costa, the senior United Nations official on drugs and crime, said Thursday. (read the article)

caseKabulThe Washington Times:

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.

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The LA Times:

As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, questions intensified Monday over how Phillip Garrido could have served only 11 years in prison after a 1976 rape and kidnapping for which he had been given a 50-year federal sentence as well as a life term in Nevada. (read the article)

LA Times:

Their transformations took place in a sensory cocoon: aboard a CIA aircraft, shackled in place, deprived of sight and sound by blindfolds, headsets and hoods. (read the article)