By Editorial Board Sacramento Bee Nine people are dead. A lone gunman is to blame. The gun he was wielding? It might’ve been one he got from his father for his 21st birthday, no paperwork required. The state where he lives? South Carolina has some of the loosest gun-control laws in the country. We know this…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department will investigate the motivations and facts behind the shooting that left nine dead at a historic black church in South Carolina. Reuters reports that Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday that the department has opened a hate-crime investigation. “We will now be looking at all of the facts,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A boat packed with undocumented immigrants collided with a Border Patrol vessel in Southern California on Thursday, killing one woman, the International Business Times reports. Border Patrol agents spotted the boat and tried to stop it, but to no avail. The boat capsized and dumped all 20 people into the water,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI assured Congress that its plane surveillance program is not intended to perform mass surveillance or bulk intelligence collection, the Associated Press reports. The FBI, however, declined to answer some questions about its planes, including how often they are used and how much they cost. The briefing comes two weeks…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents said the federal government is making it impossible to make drug busts, a move that has contributed to a “morale crisis,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “We lack the political will to enforce the law and allow our agency to be effective,” said National Border Patrol Council spokesman…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New York man accused of attacking an FBI agent with a large kitchen knife has been charged with attempted murder of a federal employee, CNN reports. Fareed Mumini, 21, allegedly tried to stab the agent several times during a search of a Staten Island home in connection to a terrorism…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is joining the investigation into the mass shooting at historic black church in Charleston, S.C., late Wednesday. The Associated Press reports that the shooting was being called a hate crime, one reason the FBI was asked to help. FBI Special Agent in Charge David Thomas attended a news conference…
By Editorial Board Los Angeles Times Two years ago, a scathing independent report by law enforcement experts found that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency had failed to fully investigate all 67 uses of deadly force, including 19 killings, by its agents from January 2010 through October 2012, most occurring along the southwest border…
