Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Supporters of marijuana rights attacked the DEA’s tight regulation of pot in a potentially landmark case that could change the drug’s classification, Reuters reports. Joseph Elford, lawyer for Americans for Safe Access, said the DEA has essentially ignored scientific research that suggests marijuana is safer than heroin and has medicinal value. “This…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The driver of a white van shot a Canadian Border Services Agency officer in the neck before apparently turning the gun on himself at Canadian crossing in Washington state Tuesday, reports KIROTV. The man, whose name was not released, died at the scene of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the female…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fox News is reporting that an Inspector General report suggests that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan lied during his congressional testimony in the Colombia prostitution scandal. Fox wrote on it’s website: Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) have completed their investigative report, which…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bill L. Lewis, a former legal attache for the FBI in Baghdad, has been named assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Division. Lewis most recently served as deputy assistant director in the Human Resources Division at FBI Headquarters. He began his career in 1988 in the Omaha…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In an effort to crack down on cyber crimes, the FBI’s field office in Washington has created a squad to investigate intellectual property thefts, the Associated Press reports. The team, assembled with a variety of experts, will investigate intellectual property and economic espionage and occasionally team up with the nearby Intellectual Property…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Complaining that Trenton Mayor Tony Mack hasn’t be working full-time since his arrest on federal bribery charges, the city council is considering cutting his salary by more than half, reports the Times of Trenton. If the measure is approved, Mack’s annual salary would gall from $126,460 to $60,000. “We’re making the position…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A group of former DEA chiefs is renewing a campaign to urge the Obama administration to publicly oppose marijuana-legalization ballot measures in Oregon, Washington and Colorado, the Seattle Times reports. The group is incensed that the Justice Department has not responded to a Sept. 7 letting requesting a public denouncement of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire,com The family of a Mexican teen fatally shot by the U.S. Border Patrol last week claims excessive force in a forthcoming lawsuit, Reuters reports. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was shot seven times in the back as agents opened fire on a group of rock throwers accused of dropping off drugs on…
