By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Talk about the dog days of summer. A U.S. Park Police detective “put her pistol aside Sunday afternoon and jumped into the murky waters of the Washington Channel to save a drowning dog, police said”, according to a story written in the Washington Post by reporter Martin Weil. Sgt. David Schlosser,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A leak investigation involving a Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is stirring up controversy. The Washington Post reports that the union representing ICE agent claims the agency is harassing an agent suspected of leaking information about controversial quotas to the media. The American Federation of Government Employees National Council…
By Andrew Alexander Washington Post Ombudsman WASHINGTON — Thursday’s Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department’s decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with a question: What took you so long? For months, readers…
“The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed—American Soldiers on Trial” by Christopher Graveline and Michael Clemens. The book is available at Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and Borders books. By Ross Parker An acquaintance from another country recently posed a question to me: How is it that such an idealistic country as America, whose people are willing to sacrifice…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. “The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed—American Soldiers on Trial” by Christopher Graveline and Michael Clemens. The book is available at Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and Borders. By Ross Parker…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man known as the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean was captured by federal authorities Saturday in Puerto Rico following a decade-long hunt, the Associated Press reported. FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals and Puerto Rico Police captured Jose Figueroa Agosto in a working class neighborhood in San Juan, AP reported. he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A D.C. federal judge, saying he hoped “the government will learn a lesson from its experience”, dismissed a major obscenity case against a major porn producer, John A. Stagliano, aka “Buttman”, the Washington Post reported. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon dismissed the case before the Calif.-based Stagliano of Evil…
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