By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com On this MLK day holiday, the blog of the ACLU has some recriminations for the FBI’s treatment of the civil rights movement hero. “Over the course of two decades, the FBI went to war against Dr. Martin Luther King,” their January 16 blog post begins. Under J. Edgar Hoover’s direction, the FBI…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A retired British businessman will be extradited to the US after losing a High Court battle, reports the Mail Online. Christopher Tappin, 64, faces charges of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles in the US, which he denies. In fighting extradition, he claimed entrapment by the FBI, which a British…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com ATF hasn’t had it easy these day. But at least it can count on one small victory. On Friday, a US Judge in Washington upheld new, controversial federal rules requiring four border-states to report sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, reports Reuters. The gun industry had challenged the new rules on privacy…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined international law enforcement agencies in investigating a 100 million pound gold scam in West Africa, reports the Belfast Telegraph. The scam, which the FBI is looking into with Interpol, is thought to have originated in Lagos, Nigeria, according to the Telegraph. It allegedly was masterminded by a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Stephen Linder stepped way over the line, federal authorities say. A Chicago fed grand jury last week indicted him for civil rights violations for allegedly assaulting handcuffed prisoners. The Justice Department alleged that Linder, 36, choked a handcuffed man on July 8, 2010, and head-butted a handcuffed man…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Dominick Pelletier was not expecting prison time when he went looking for a job at the FBI. But he got it. The 34-year-old suburban Chicago resident applied with the bureau as an intelligence analyst in August of 2008, according to the Daily Herald, but after taking a routine polygraph test he…
