Protecting the U.S.- Mexican border has always been a challenge. And this this is only adding to the challenge. By Jeffrey Anderson The Washington Times WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants…
Thomas Penfield Jackson was a U.S. District Court judge in D.C. for 22 years before retiring in 2004. By Thomas Penfield Jackson Washington Post Column For reasons I have some difficulty appreciating, the city of New York has rejected Attorney General Eric Holder’s plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Manhattan. True, the trial will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The good news for ex-assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Bergrin is that he won’t be facing the death penalty. The Asbury Park Press in New Jersey reports that Atty. Gen. Eric Holder has decided not to seek the death penalty against the prominent defense attorney in his pending case in which he’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has interviewed New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes about a Canadian doctor accused of selling an unapproved drug known as Actovegin, an extract from calf’s blood used to speed healing, the Associated Press reported. Reyes said he was interviewed last week about Dr. Anthony Galea at the Mets spring…
