By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who knew New York City had a sheriff? Well, native New Yorker Edgar Domenech, the whistleblower who was Deputy Director of ATF until he was demoted in 2007 after raising questions about financial mismanagement in 2007, has been named the city’s new sheriff, according to the New York Daily News. Domenech…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. scored a little victory in the battle against terrorism. The Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Washington tossed out a lawsuit by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the administration’s legal right to place Yemen cleric Nasser al-Aulaqi, who is also a U.S. citizen,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com T.S. Eliot he’s not. A Kentucky man who posted on the Internet a poem threatening President Obama was sentenced Monday in Louisville federal court to 33 months in prison, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Johnny Logan Spencer, 28, apologized for writing the poem entitled “The Sniper”, which described a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In this turbulent era of WikiLeaks, this hardly seems shocking. Authorities are alleging in a search warrant that a Navy sailor based at Fort Bragg passed classified documents to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign intelligence agent, the Associated Press reports. In exchange, he was given cash. AP reported…
