By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF has stepped into a big pile of manure and it hasn’t been doing a very good job of trying to clean off its boots. I’m referring to the dust up over Operation Fast and Furious , a program out of Arizona in which ATF let “straw purchasers” buy…
By Justin Blum and Alison Fitzgerald Bloomberg WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue manslaughter charges against BP Plc (BP/) managers for decisions made before the Gulf of Mexico oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, according to three people familiar with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The deadly drama at the Mexican border continues to play out in so many different way. The latest: The Associated Press reports that the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department on Monday said that a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a Mexican man three times in the back as he tried climbing a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Go on eBay and you’ll find it all: a Bottega Veneta handbag; a 1956 Chevy Bel Air van; an uncirculated Eagle quarter shrunk to the size of a dime. But a U.S. spy plane? Yes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa said Monday that it had charged Henson Chua, 47, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As days go, Monday was not Barry Bonds’ best one. His ex-girlfriend Kimberly Bell testified in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that the former baseball slugger for the San Francisco Giants told her he used steroids but “didn’t shoot it up everyday like bodybuilders did,” according to the San Francisco…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYd4vG1sDXY Del Quentin Wilber, author of the new book on the shooting, “Rawhide Down”, discusses the shooting. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5wLFeYB24
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some people don’t really want to get out of prison. Michael Crooker might be one of those folks. Crooker, 57, who has been in prison since June 2004, pleaded guilty Monday in Boston to illegally possessing deadly ricin and using the mail to threaten a federal prosecutor. The prosecutor told the…
