Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government has ordered an independent autopsy of Michael Brown as violence continues to erupt in Ferguson, the Washington Post reports. The request Sunday comes as the Justice Department pledges to take a play an intensified role in the investigation of the fatal police shooting of the unarmed black teenager. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As violence erupted in Ferguson during protests overnight, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon deployed the National Guard in hopes of avoiding more looting and shootings, the USA Today reports. The order comes after another clash between police and protesters. Police reported dodging bullets and Molotov cocktails Sunday night and early Monday morning. No…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A key FBI agent who helped nab a state senator and 19 others lavished his targets with tens of thousands of dollars, lawyers for one of the defendants argued last week. The Associated Press reports that the agent was removed from the case over financial improprieties. One of the defendant’s lawyers called…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has unintentionally spied on Americans who were not the targets of investigations because of routine, avoidable mistakes, the National Journal reports. The Justice Department’s inspector general discovered that the FBI sometimes collected data on the wrong people because of typographical errors. “We found that the FBI’s corrective measures have not…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Bell and Craig Josephburg have made FBI history. The accused fraudsters were the first suspects to have their confessions electronically recorded under a new Justice Department policy, the New York Daily News reports. The pair is accused of a massive pump-and-dump stock scheme. The new policy is intended to get a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A day after zealous police clashed with protesters and fired tear gas at demonstrators and the media, the Justice Department announced it’s increasing its involvement in the review of an officer who shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., Time reports. The efforts include sending advisers to meet with local law enforcement,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents have tried to alter details of at least seven “highly suspect” deaths since 2010, a former internal affairs official for CBP told the Center for Investigative Reporting. “In nearly every instance, there was an effort by Border Patrol leadership to make a case to justify the shooting versus doing…
