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FBI Investigates 7-Decade-Old Lynching of 2 Black Couples in Georgia
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a brutal lynching even by Georgia’s standards. On July 25, 1946, a white mob tied up a black couple in their 20s and shot them 60 times. The notorious incident became known as the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching. No one has been prosecuted in the case. But The Guardian…
Border Patrol Agents Advised They May Let Drunken Drivers Loose
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been advised they are under no obligation to arrest drunken drivers and will face no consequences for letting the suspects go, CBS5 reports. A training memo that has been circulating among agents reminded them that they have no legal authority to arrest someone for breaking…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: FBI Director’s Speech on Race Is Two-Way Street
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board During a widely lauded speech at Georgetown University last week, FBI Director James B. Comey proved that he’s no J. Edgar Hoover. Instead of glossing over unpleasant truths about the relationship between minority communities and the police, Mr. Comey seized on the opportunity to acknowledge the reality of racial bias…
Secret Service Agents Spent Average of Just 25 Minutes Training in 2014
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One reason the Secret Service is making so many embarrassing blunders may have something to do with the lack of training. The Fiscal Times reports that the Secret Service’s uniformed officers trained for an average of just 25 minutes in fiscal 2013, a significant decline over previous years The Secret Service…
Wrongfully Convicted Man Sues FBI Agents Who Helped Send Him to Prison
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A computer programmer who was wrongfully convicted of stealing trading codes from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2009 is suing the FBI agents who helped put him in prison, Bloomberg reports. Sergey Aleynikov, who inspired Michael Lewis’s best-seller “Flash Boys,” claims in the lawsuit that agents violated his constitutional against unreasonable…
Percentage of Black FBI Agents Declined Over Past Two Decades
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While FBI Director James Comey offered a sobering critique of law enforcement’s handling of African Americans, his agency isn’t exactly a beacon of diversity. Politico reports that the percentage of black FBI agents has declined over the past two decades. African Americans only represent 4.7% of the FBI’s special agents, a…
Former FBI Agent Who Became VP of New York Yankees Dies
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Phil McNiff, a former FBI agent and executive vice president of the New York Yankees, died Sunday, The Tampa Tribune reports. McNiff died following “a long, difficult battle with an illness that sapped his memory and his remarkable spirit of caring for people.” McNiff, whose older brother also worked for the…
House Speaker Boehner ‘Certainly’ Prepared to Let Homeland Security Shut Down
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com House Speaker John A. Boehner said he’s “certainly” willing to let Homeland Security shut down at the end of the month. The New York Times reports that Boehner said he won’t budge on a spending bill that would remove funding for President Obama’s immigration policy. “The House has done its job;…