By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Hard to believe. But nearly 10 years after the nation was tramautized by the attacks of 9-11, plenty people are still bringing guns to airports. As part of the ticklethewire.com’s occasional story on guns-at-airports, we looked at the stats for the week of Aug. 15 to 21 compiled by the Transportation…
By TARA McKELVEY New York Times In May 2004, the F.B.I. special agent James J. Smith found himself in an uncomfortable spot: he had to tell a federal judge about an affair he’d had with an informer, Katrina Leung, a San Marino, Calif., businesswoman with “jet-black hair,” while his wife and son were sitting in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended by the NBA in a gun incident in Washington in 2009, was not the most sought after player in the league. But now he feels more wanted — by the FBI that is. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is helping Atlanta and Los Angeles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I’m all for the right to bear arms. The constitution says we can. That being said, guns and semi-automatic rifles are a dangerous enough commodity — like prescription morphine and oxycodone — that they need to be regulated — particularly when they end up in the hands of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — If you were gambler, you might want to put up your home, your first born and your savings and checking accounts and bet that a fed judge in Detroit will flatly reject the most recent motion by so called “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Abdulmutallab, who is representing himself…
