Ok. This simply comes under the category of: What’s Wrong With This Picture? This guy apparently didn’t get the memo that he’s supposed to protect the banks, not rob them. By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An economist on leave from the federal agency that insures bank deposits has been charged with the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Lawmakers didn’t mask their annoyance Thursday during a subcommittee hearing with Homeland Security’s undersecretary of management Elaine C. Duke. “Your excuses are lame when you say you’re following the medical advice,” the subcommittee chairman, Stephen F. Lynch, (D-Mass.) told Duke, according to a report in the Washington Post. The…
Karl Rove, who surely had his hand in shaping much of the Bush administration’s business and ideology, can shed some light on the controversial U.S. Atty. firings if he wants to. But that’s the real question: Does he want to? A frequent commentator on Fox News, we’ll see if he can be fair and balanced…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In the end — after all the drama — it came down to a slap on the wrist. In relatively quick fashion, a federal magistrate judge Thursday morning in Washington sentenced ex-FBI agent Mark Rossini to one year probation and a $5,000 fine for illegally accessing FBI documents and…
By DAPHNE DURET Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH – A judge has sentenced Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr. to die for the 2006 murders of two boys killed along with their parents at the side of Florida’s Turnpike. U.S. Senior District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley handed down the death sentences for Troya this…
The good news is that the materials were supposedly non-infectious. The bad news is that, as we learned from the anthrax attacks, some labs around the world still lack proper security measures to prevent materials from being removed. Consider this case another warning. By Philip Ling Canwest News Service A Canadian scientist was stopped at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On a perfect spring night, with temperatures hovering in the 60s, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder lead a candle light vigil for thousands of law enforcement officers and family members who gathered Wednesday night in Washington to commemorate the passing of 387 officers and federal agents killed in the…
