President Chips Away at Fed Law Enforcement Nominations: The latest Being U.S. Atty for Ala. and U.S. Marshal for NY

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After more than two years in office, President Obama is still chipping away at appointments for U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal. The latest: President Obama nominated private attorney George Lamar Beck, Jr., a former Deputy Attorney General in Alabama from 1971 to 1979,  for the U.S. Attorney post for…

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Ex-ATF Offcial Thinks Funds Could Get Cut or ATF Could Be Eliminated if it Doesn’t Cooperate With Congressional Inquiries

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In the ever too eager climate to slash budgets, ex-ATF official Bernie La Forest thinks ATF could face some serious  cuts — and even elimination — if it doesn’t start cooperating with Congress and give answers about a controversial gun program known as “Operation Fast and Furious.” “This refusal…

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Tex. Congressman Says Mexican Cartel Members Plotting to Kill American Agents

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A law enforcement bulletin is warning that Mexican drug cartel members  have talked about killing U.S. law enforcement agents on the American side of the border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas  said Thursday that  the gangsters were overheard talking about killing U.S….

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DEA and Locals Nab Guatemala’s Top Drug Trafficker

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA and Guatemala authorities on Wednesday nabbed Guatemala’s reputed top drug trafficker who was wanted on cocaine charges in Florida, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Juan Ortiz Lopez and two other suspects were arrested at a house in the western city of Quetzaltenango. Guatemala’s Minister Carlos Menocal said…

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Ex-FBI Agent Recorded Saying He “Kidnapped” Fugitives Back to Their Homeland in 1990s; Now Denies He Meant It

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former FBI agent bragged that while working for the agency in the 1990s “he routinely arrested Bahamian criminal defendants in South Florida and unlawfully sent them back to their homeland on commercial airline flights without any formal review of their cases in U.S. courts,” the Miami Herald reported….

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