By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insulted — albeit inadvertently — the folks at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today by mentioning the FBI instead of their agency in remarks about the war on drugs. At a town hall meeting in Washington aired on MTV, the president told a group…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News CVS Pharmacy, the largest retail drug store chain in the nation, agreed to pay $77.6 million in fines for unlawfully selling pseudoephedrine to criminals who made methamphetamine, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles announced today. It’s the biggest civil penalty in the history of the Controlled Substances Act….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Arab- American student from California who recently found an FBI GPS on his car is asking his Congressman to help find out why he was being followed, Jeff Stein of Spy Talk reports. Stein reports that student Yasir Afifi has turned to Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) for help. Afifi’s attorney…
UPDATE, Thurs. 2:30 p.m. — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made a brief appearance Thursday and said he was happy representing himself, and didn’t think it was necessary for the prosecutors to share evidence with his stand-by counsel, the Detroit News reported. The judge said she was overriding him on the sharing of evidence. A pretrial conference…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As part of an occasional snapshot of what’s happening at U.S. airports, here’s the latest: Authorities found 17 firearms at airport checkpoints the week of Oct 4 to Oct. 10, according to the Transportation Security Administration, which runs the checkpoints. Additionally, seven passengers during that week were arrested for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – James P. Myers is returning to Los Angeles — this time as a FBI special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division and Field Intelligence Group for the L.A. office. Myers, whose last post was as section chief of HUMINT operations (Human Intelligence) and oversight section, started as an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI’s Agents Association said Wednesday that he’d prefer to see all agents retake a controversial open-book test– and that no one be punished. “Given the publicity, anyone taking the test the next time, there shouldn’t be any confusion as to the procedure,” Association President Konrad…
