A Familiar Circus Breaks Out As FBI Digs for Jimmy Hoffa

Update: Tuesday, 8:10  a.m. — The FBI resumes digging today.  Update: Monday, 6 p.m. — Detroit FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet said agents would continue digging until sundown and will return Tuesday at 8 a.m.  to resume activities. He declined to provide specifics beyond that.************* By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit Oakland Township, Mich –– On Monday morning, almost as…

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Dick Cheney Defends Phone, Internet Surveillance, Said It Could Have Prevented 9/11

  Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the NSA database of phone and Internet records that were recently disclosed by a self-proclaimed whistleblower would have been useful in the fight against terrorism, NECN reports. “We might have been able to prevent 9/11,” said Former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney is among those…

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Chicago Surgeon Accused of Performing Unnecessary Tracheotomies for $160,000 Per Procedure

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A surgeon at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital is accused of performing unneeded tracheotomies to enable the for-profit hospital to collect as much as $160,000 per case, Bloomberg reports. Investigators say the doctor sedated patients so much that they couldn’t breathe on their own so that he could perform a tracheotomy – or…

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