Ex-TSA Official Says Airport Screeners Would Have Caught Latest Underwear Bomber

By Mark Strassmann CBS News At more than 180 U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration increasingly relies on full-body scanners. Their electromagnetic waves screen passengers for dense objects — both metallic and non-metallic threats — from guns to homemade plastic explosives. Kip Hawley was the TSA administrator in 2007, when the agency rolled out these…

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FBI Announces Kenneth L. Moore New Special Agent in Charge of Knoxville Division

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Kenneth L. Moore has been appointed special agent in charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Division, the FBI announced in a press release. Moore has served as chief inspector in the FBI’s Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters since April 2011. Moore’s career began in 1987 in Little Rock. He later went on to…

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Senators Call for Government Study on DEA’s Role in Prescription Drug Shortage

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Could the DEA be doing more harm than good with its efforts to curb prescription drug abuse? Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are asking the Government Accountability Office to study how the DEA’s crackdowns on controlled substances may be creating shortages of vital prescription meds…

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