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Feds Won’t Charge John W. Hinckley With Murder in James Brady’s Death
By Peter Hermann Washington Post Staff Writer Federal prosecutors said they will not charge John W. Hinckley Jr. with murder in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary in a 1981 assassination attempt, even though a medical examiner concluded his August death was caused by the old wounds. The decision, announced Friday by the…
Man Claims Threats to Media Following Sony Hack Was ‘Fake’ And He Was ‘Messing Around’
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A threat to the news media following the Sony hack may have been a hoax from a tweeter who was just “messing around,” ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security believed the threat was credible enough to include it in a join intelligence bulletin last week to law enforcement agencies….
Border Patrol Agents Are Getting Attacked Fewer Times Than Previous Years
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Assaults against Border Patrol agents dropped for the sixth year in a row in fiscal 2014, the Arizona Republic reports. The agency recorded 373 assaults against agents, a 20% decline over 2013. Of those, 366 occurred along the Southwest border. That represents a two-thirds drop since fiscal 2008. Although CPB has…
FBI Assists Investigation into Disappearance of 43 College Students in Mexico
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is beginning to help investigate the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico, even as evidence recently surfaced that the country’s government may have been involved in rounding up the young people, NBC News reports. The students, who were training to be teachers, vanished on Sept. 26 after protesting…
Boston Globe Editorial: Border Patrol Needs to Be Reigned In to Keep Its Focus
By Editorial Board Boston Globe Most Americans have a pretty firm idea of where the borders of the United States lie. But most are unaware that the federal government has an entirely different — and alarmingly far-reaching — definition of the nation’s boundaries when it comes to immigration enforcement. In fact, Customs and Border Protection…
DEA Investigator Received Sexual Favors in Exchange for Bogus Offers of Reduced Sentences
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal methamphetamine cases against 11 people may be in limbo after a DEA investigator in Roanoke, Va., admitted he received sexual favors in exchange for bogus offers of reduced sentences, WDBJ 7 reports. Kevin Moore admitted the offenses two weeks ago, and now many of the cases have been delayed to…
Parker: The Bicentennial of U. S, Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″. By Ross…
FBI Maintains North Korea Was Mastermind Behind Sony Hack Despite Other Evidence
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is not backing down on its claim that North Korea was the mastermind behind the disruptive Sony studio hack, the New York Post reports. The bureau’s insistence comes after a growing number of private cyber-security firms are saying there is no evidence to conclude North Korea was the mastermind….