Setting itself terms not just for their constituencies but for the country as a whole, these members of Congress reduced the full repertoire of possibilities for policy to a narrower set of feasible options that met with their approval, or at least their forbearance. No noteworthy lawmaking the New Deal accomplished could have passed without…
By DAMIEN CAVE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT New York Times MEXICO CITY — America’s drug problem is shifting from illicit substances like cocaine to abuse of prescription painkillers, a change that is forcing policy makers to re-examine the long and expensive strategy of trying to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States. Related This…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Ohio man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent during a raid on his home on June 28 was a registered sex offender, the Dayton Daily News reports. Fallacy Myers, 43, was convicted of indecent solicitation of a child in 1995 in Kansas, and was a registered sex offender until…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Women were not allowed to become FBI agents until weeks after longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died, the FBI reports in a series about female special agents. The bureau changed its policy, in part because of new equal-rights laws. The first women of the modern era to become special agents were…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joe Paterno’s family pledged Monday to launch its own investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, saying ex-FBI Director Louie Freeh, who headed up the investigation, got it wrong, the Associated Press reports. “Our interest has been and remains the uncovering of the truth,” the family said in a statement….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com April Brooks will become the first woman to head the criminal division of the FBI’s New York office, Business Week reports. FBI DIrector Robert Mueller named Brooks, 45, as special agent in charge of the office’s criminal division, which has handled terrorism and insider-trading cases. Brooks replaces Diego Rodriguez, who was promoted…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A GPS-tracking device stuffed into a bag of stolen bank money let to the arrest of a 29-year-old man who tried to get away with more than $7,000 from a financial institution in Illinois, The Chicago Tribune reports. FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde said Miguel A. Ramirez was charged in a criminal complaint…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the discovery of sewing needles in turkey sandwiches served aboard four Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the U.S., the Washington Post reports. The FBI’s Atlanta Office opened a criminal investigation after the airline said it found six sandwiches with what appeared to be sewing needles. One…
