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  • **FILE** Mark Basseley Youssef (right) talks with his attorney, Steven Seiden, in a courtroom sketch from Sept. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Benghazi scapegoat remains in prison for film

    The man who made the anti-Islam film that the Obama administration erroneously blamed for the Benghazi terror attacks remains in federal prison eight months later, serving a yearlong sentence for probation violations stemming from his involvement with the video.


  • ** FILE ** The rapper Ja Rule is pictured in a vehicle outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building and Courthouse in Newark, N.J., after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges on March 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

    Ja Rule: Rapper leaves upstate N.Y. federal prison

    Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule has left federal prison.


  • Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the blind sheik. (Credit: Associated Press)

    Blind sheik’s social media empire grows from behind bars

    The blind sheik, convicted of orchestrating the deadly World Trade Center bombing 20 years ago, has benefited from a sophisticated social media messaging machine despite serving life in prison in a solitary confinement cell in North Carolina.


  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DUNLEAVY: Solitary confinement, not torture

    "And the winner is... ." When those words were uttered at the Academy Awards we knew it would not be "Zero Dark Thirty." The film, although critically acclaimed, was criticized for condoning the torture of terrorists. The debate is ongoing about whether the enhanced interrogation techniques used on terrorists were necessary for the prevention of future attacks, and whether they were, in fact, "torture."


  • Rapper Ja Rule in NYC jail with July release date

    Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule is in a New York City jail with a July release date.


  • Rapper Ja Rule leaves NY prison in gun case

    Platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule left an upstate New York prison Thursday morning after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession and headed straight into federal custody in a tax case.


  • **FILE** Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz (Associated Press)

    No references required for federal law enforcement hires

    No governmentwide requirements exist for the checking of references for job applicants as a part of the federal government’s hiring process, including those who apply for law enforcement positions in the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a report released Thursday says.


  • Illustration Terrorists' Justice by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DUNLEAVY: Terrorists in jail demand their 'rights'

    On Sept. 11, the nation remembers that fateful day in 2001 when the earth shook, the buildings fell and the innocent were slain. On that day, we vowed as a nation to bring to justice, or bring justice to, those who committed the acts of terrorism. We did.


  • Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend freed from Pa. prison

    An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway has been released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.


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