By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lewis “Matt” Chapman is taking charge of the FBI’s Mobile, Ala. office, the FBI announced Monday. Chapman’s last stop was as FBI section chief of the Investigative and Operations Support Section, Critical Incident Response Group in Quantico, Va. The FBI said Chapman, as section chief, oversaw the FBI’s National Center for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marshals Service has becoming increasingly involved in apprehending local and federal officials, which may explain in part why its deputies are increasingly being put in harms way, the website Talking Points Memo suggests. In the past several weeks, two deputy U.S. marshals have been shot and killed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two former Blackwater employees have been convicted in federal court in of involuntary manslaughter while working Afghanistan in 2009. Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Tex. and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va., were convicted Friday in Norfolk U.S. District Court. Both were working for Blackwater as contractors for the…
By JANET MASLIN New York Times The patient was 70, fit and very polite. He made it a point of pride to walk into the emergency room under his own steam. The medical staff went to work on him immediately, cutting off clothes, inserting IV lines, starting fluids and hooking up monitors. The process moved…
