By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — The Nigerian man known as the “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hasn’t given up the fight to go free. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday heard arguments from his lawyer Travis Rossman, who wants his client’s guilty plea tossed. He wants him to undergo a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Budget cuts are going to have a big impact on the FBI’s ability to fight crime and terrorism, according to a group that represents 12,000 active and former special agents, Govexec.com reports. The FBI Agents Association warned at a press conference Wednesday of the effects of looming furloughs, an ongoing hiring freeze…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man was arrested after he was spotted throwing a suspicious object at the White House, the New York Daily News reports. The suspect was arrested soon after he threw the object over the White House’s north fence line at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. A closer examination found that the object was “not…
Tom Dennis Grand Forks Herald Helping local law enforcement is all well and good. But that’s not why the United States beefed up the Border Patrol along the Canadian border to 10 times its pre-Sept. 11 size, an expansion. Instead, that expansion from Maine to Washington was done for one and only one reason —…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A tiny fraction of drug defendants in federal cases chose to go to trial instead of pleading guilty. A new report from Human Rights Watch indicates that just 3% of defendants charged with drugs choose to go to trial, the Huffington Post reports. The reason: The excessive penalties for drugs, according to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Dodson said he’s barely hanging onto his job. The ATF agent blew the whistle on the botched gun trafficking scheme, “Fast and Furious,” and is the author of “The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle And Expose Fast and Furious.” Dodson said not enough people were held accountable. “Nobody’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This wasn’t your typical bank robber. The young man with a busted lip, facial bruises and a swollen eye walked into a Houston Bank wearing no disguises. He pulled out a pistol and demanded money, the Houston Chronicle reports. The robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. Investigators have dubbed him…
The Daily Astoria Editorial Can political protests be restricted so that political leaders don’t have to listen? This is one way of framing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court when it considers this term whether Secret Service agents were right in ordering protesters to be removed from President George W. Bush’s sight and hearing…
