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Las Cruces Sun-News: Border Patrol Should Not Police Itself After So Many Fatal Shootings
By Editorial Board Las Cruces Sun-News 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…
Ex-Secret Service Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing 820K from Silk Road Seizure
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin during an investigation of Silk Road, the Examiner.com reports. The former agent, Shaun W. Bridges, was accused of skimming $820,000 from the Silk Road seizure and was charged. The computer crime expert was…
FBI Investigates Website Belonging to Accused Charleston Shooter
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a website that appears to belong to Dylan Roof, the 21-year-old white man accused of opening fire inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people. The website, http://lastrhodesian.com/, includes fake photos of dead people and a racist manifesto that sounds like the ramblings…
Former FBI Agent Blasts Newly Declassified CIA Reports on 9/11
By Jeff Stein Newsweek WASHINGTON — Mark Rossini, a former FBI special agent at the center of an enduring mystery related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, says he is “appalled” by the newly declassified statements by former CIA Director George Tenet defending the spy agency’s efforts to detect and stop the plot….
FBI: 3 Men Plotted Attack on Muhammad Cartoon Contest for Months
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The three men accused of plotting an attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas had been making plans for months. The men were friends outside of a Phoenix mosque lighting off fireworks during a New Year’s Eve celebration when authorities said they expressed a desire to make pipe bombs,…
Sacramento Bee: Gun Laws Can Help Prevent Attacks Like South Carolina Church Shooting
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…
Justice Department Opens Hate Crime Investigation into Church Shooting
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,…