Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for the FBI are defying a judge’s orders to hand over all of its evidence to defendant George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing an unarmed black teenager with a gun, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Justice Department argues in paperwork filed this week that the state court cannot trump…
Mercury News Opinion by Fadi A. Saba The Federal Bureau of Investigation a track record of attacking the undesirables of the time. In the early part of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy were the focus; in the 1940s, it was Japanese-Americans; in the 1950s, it was Americans who questioned U.S. foreign policy; in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four ATF agents who were killed during the botched raid on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas, will be honored during a private ceremony today – the 20th anniversary of the raid, the Associated Press reports. Killed during the Feb. 28, 1993, gun battle were agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert John…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Black Secret Service agents cleared a major hurdle this week in a discrimination lawsuit that claims the Department of Homeland Security has passed over African Americans for promotions, Reuters reports. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Roberts ruled the eight current and former agents meet requirements for class recertification, a key technicality…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 28-year-old South Carolina man faces charges that he threatened the lives of several people including President Obama. Patrick Randell McIntosh Charleston, S.C. was arraigned in Atlanta U.S. District Court. “McIntosh is charged with making violent and disturbing threats online and via email to several people, including a threat to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security has begun to empty out some immigration jails ahead of the looming mandatory budget cuts, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that ICE has reviewed hundreds of cases and began removing an undisclosed number of illegal immigrants, who were “placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP officials warned Congress that failing to prevent the planned sequester Friday would force the agency to cut hours by the equivalent of a quarter of its workforce – or 5,000 full-time workers, the Arizona Republic reports. That will mean reduced border security and longer waits at airports and border entries, the CBP…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the cannibalism trial of New York Police Officer Gilberto Valle, the big question is: Was the 28-year-old Queens resident serious about chopping up women and eating them? “I’m dying to taste some girl meat,” Valley told an online friend, according to an FBI agent during the second day of testimony Tuesday,…
