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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over the FBI reading Miranda rights to terrorism suspects could get some added fuel. The website Talking Points Memo (TPM) reported that U.S. District Judge Jude Justin Quackenbush in Spokane, Wash., was upset that the FBI did not immediately advise white supremacist Kevin Harpham of his rights after arresting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s off to prison for more than two decades for a California heroin dealer who authorities say was responsible for two overdose deaths. David Ryan Tejera, 23, pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court in a deal that calls for him to serve 22 years, the Associated Press reported. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service isn’t just there to protect the president from bullets. President Obama predicted Tuesday that he would get re-elected and joked that he planned to use the Secret Service agents to shield boys from his daughters, Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10. “When I’m reelected, what I’ll be getting them…
