August 2011
DEA Makes Record Bust of Heroin in Michigan
Michigan Bust Seizes Drugs Totaling $150M: MyFoxDETROIT.com
ATF Denies Fast and Furious Officials Were Promoted
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is denying a report by the Los Angeles Times that said supervisors involved in the controversial and troubled “Operation Fast and Furious” were given promotions, NPR reported. The ATF said the supervisors were “laterally transferred,” NPR reported. Under Fast and Furious, ATF encouraged gun dealers to sell weapons to middlemen…
Secret Service Agent Busted in Iowa for Drunk Driving
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The good news: At least Daneil L. Valencia wasn’t driving the President around. The bad news: The Secret Service agent, who lives in D.C., was busted in Decorah, Ia. on Saturday for drunk driving after running a red light about 1:30 a.m., according to the Des Moines Register. President Obama visited…
Ex-Miss. U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton Dies at 60; Office Prosecuted Old Civil Rights Era Cases
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Jackson, Miss. U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, who was appointed by President Bush in 2001, and led the prosecutions in some old civil rights case, died Wednesday of natural causes, the station WAPT reported. He was 60. While serving as U.S. Attorney, his office led the prosecution of once-dormant civil rights cases…
Top Ten List About Paranoia: FBI Investigating Radical Muslim’s Death Threats Against David Letterman
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If talk show host David Letterman were to put out a “Top 10 List” of reasons to be paranoid, this would be at the top. The FBI has said it will investigate a death threat made by a radical Muslim, the International Business Times reports. The radical person called for Letterman’s…
FBI Opens Civil Rights Probe into Teen Who Ran Down Black Man in Miss.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Mississippi in the 1960s? The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of a black man who Mississippi authorities say was intentionally run down and killed by a white teenager in a pickup truck in June near a Jackson hotel, the Associated Press reports. Deborah Madden,…