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Justice Department Faces Serious Cuts If Sequestration Isn’t Avoided Today
Steve Neavling ticklethewire The Justice Department faces $1.6 billion in cuts – nearly 10% of it budget – if Congress and the White House can’t reach an agreement on the nation’s spending plan by later today, NPR reports. Obama earlier warned of big cuts to federal law enforcement. “FBI Agents will be furloughed,” Obama warned….
Investigation: AG, FBI Abusing Use of Corporate-Style Jets Intended to Fight Terrorism
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two corporate-style jets that the FBI insisted it needed for the global fight against terrorism are primarily being used for personal and business trips by Attorney General Eric Holder, the former AG and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the Washington Guardian reports. Taxpayers financed “non-mission flights” on the luxury Gulfstream V jet to…
FBI Defies Judge’s Order to Hand Over More Evidence to George Zimmerman
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…
Opinion: FBI Continues to Target Vulnerable, Psychologically Troubled Muslims
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…
Judge Allows Discrimination Lawsuit to Continue for Black Secret Service Agents
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…
Illegal Immigrants Being Released Ahead of Looming Mandatory Budget Cuts
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…
Trial in Cannibalism Case Against NYPD Cop Begins with Testimony from Potential Targets
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,…
Author Speaks Out about New Book That Claims FBI Manufactured Terrorism Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethethewire.com Investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson has caused quite a stir since the release of his new book, “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.” Claiming in his book that most terrorism suspects could never have carried out an attack without the help of the FBI, Aaronson spoke at length with…