OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST D.C. Sees 25% Jump in Rapes (AP) Atty. Gen. Holder Wants Gitmo Closed by 2012 (Montreal Gazette) Teen Murder Suspect Sued by Older Brother (Courthouse News Service) U.S. Atty. in Washington State Speaks Out About Skimming; Was Victim Herself (Main Justice) FBI Claimed Controversial Islamic Training Seminar Ended in April Even…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shakeups at the Honolulu International Airport. CNN reports that the Transportation Security Administration fired 28 of its employees after a probe determined that bags were allowed on planes without being properly screened. Additionally, three people resigned or retired and 15 were suspended. All those terminated or suspended “have the right to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the “dirty bomber”, Jose Padilla, got too soft of a sentence, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The Associated Press reports that the appeals court vacated the 17-year sentence and ordered a new sentencing. Padilla, a Muslim convert, was convicted in 2007 along with two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh and Tom Ridge, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Angels protecting us from evil, or just hired guns for the gambling industry? If you read the press release by FairPlayUSA, you’d think they were here to save us from the evil. FairPlayUSA announced that Freeh…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’d think Clifford Dean Posey, an ATF agent, would have known of the old adage: Crime doesn’t pay. Apparently not. Posey, 43, of Chesapeake, Va., was sentenced Friday in Richmond, Va., to three years and one month in prison for stealing guns and cigarettes from ATF and selling them. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A few years before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy told an aide that he thought the Secret Service was being over protective, according to an article in Town & Country magazine. He told his aide after he was elected in 1960 that Secret Service needed to ease up because…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ramping up civil rights enforcement against local police nationwide, opening a number of investigations to determine whether officers are guilty of brutality or discrimination against Hispanics and other minorities. In recent months, the Justice Department has begun inquiries into major city police departments such…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crime in the United States dipped about 6 percent in 2010, marking a drop in the stats for the fourth straight year, the FBI reported Monday. In 2009, the rate dropped by 5.4 percent. The last increase came in 2006. In 2010, the murder rate dropped 4.2 percent; aggravated assaults…
