Los Angeles Times Editorial When President Obama nominated Michele Leonhart to head the Drug Enforcement Administration last month, those hoping for a sensible federal policy regarding medical marijuana — one that promotes scientific research into its medicinal value and eschews prosecution when it is used in accordance with local laws — shivered. As special agent…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed By Clarence Page Chicago Tribune Columnist WASHINGTON — Resistance to political influence is a virtue in a good attorney general. Tone deafness to politics is not, especially when the public fails to understand the virtue in what you’re doing. That appears to be why, as much as he prefers a civilian trial…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI apparently warned Massachusetts mob crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno that he might get whacked a year before he was gunned down in November 2003, the Boston Globe reported. The paper reported that unsealed records in Hamden Superior Court in Massachusetts shows an FBI agent noted in a Feb….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –Could it be ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of sex-text message fame, who has already served time for obstruction of justice in state court, could face far more serious charges in federal court? The Detroit Free Press reports that “a contractor who pleaded guilty in an ongoing corruption probe in Detroit…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cc31ZqQWUg Weekend Stories of Note Justice Dept. Finds Bush Lawyers Used Poor Judgment in Waterboarding, But Will Not Face Discipline (Washington Post) Book By Washington Post Reporters to Detail Investigation Into Chandra Levy Slaying (McClatchy Newspapers) FBI Probing School’s Use of Webcams Inside Students’ Home (AP)
The FBI hopes the latest disclosure will convince people they fingered the right guy. Of course, there are some who still believe that the elements found in the anthrax could not have come from the Maryland lab where suspect Bruce Ivins worked. By Scott Shane New York Times WASHINGTON — More than eight years after…
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…
