By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights inquiry into a controversial shooting in Portland, Ore, which has the black community up in arms. The Associated Press reports that the investigators are looking into the shooting of Aaron Campbell, an African American, who was shot in the back by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some people seek out controversy or controversy finds them. In the case of ex-Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, who’s tenure as U.S. Attorney was filled with controversy, it’s probably both. Buchanan, 46, who stepped down as U.S. Attorney in November, is making a bid for Congress. On Thursday, her confrontation…
Maybe it’s not surprising that in an economic downturn where people are afraid of losing their money, some people who are unstable are taking their frustrations to the next level. By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post WASHINGTON — Attacks on the Internal Revenue Service and its employees similar to Thursday’s small plane crash in Texas are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph L. Perritte, a retired FBI agent who ended his 30-plus year career as crypto systems unit chief of the electronics section of the FBI Laboratory, died late last month in Bethesda, Md., of prostrate cancer at age 88, the Washington Post reported. Perritte, a resident of Silver Spring,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael Morehart, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of the Security Division at headquarters, is moving down the road to take over as special agent in charge of the Richmond division. Morehart started as an agent in October 1986, and was first assigned to the Columbia, S.C., bureau before going…
By Allan Lengel For AOL NEWS WASHINGTON — We expect the Department of Homeland Security to protect us from the evil-doers of the world — not to provide them with guns. But an inspector general report released this week found that the Homeland Security agencies that protect our border, our airports and our president lost…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Disgraced former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who became a heroic figure after the Sept. 11 attack and who almost became a member of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet, is headed off to prison. U.S. District Judge Stephen C. Robinson today sentenced Kerik to four years in prison…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Early last year newly minted Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. shook things up when he delivered a speech saying Americans were “cowards” when it came to race. “Though the nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be,…
