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Washington Post: Reforms Could Usher in Accountability for Border Patrol
By Washington Post Editorial Board Few federal government agencies have grown as quickly as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes the 21,000 agents, double the number in 2004, who patrol the nation’s frontiers with Mexico and Canada. That growth has been accompanied by an alarming number of incidents involving the use of lethal force,…
Justice Department Wants to End Profiling Based Ethnicity, Religion, Sexual Orientation
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com The days of profiling may be over for federal law enforcement, according to a report obtained by the Washington Post. The ban on profiling would apply to people based on their ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. One impact of the policy, for example, would be prohibiting surveillance of mosques without proof…
President Obama Was Angry with Secret Service for Handling of Shots Fired at White House
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com Although President Obama recently expressed confidence in the Secret Service, his actions may speak louder. Boston.com reports that Obama and his wife were incensed with the Secret Service’s handling of what turned out to be shots fired at the White House in 2011. The news comes a little more than a…
FBI Agents Bust Philadelphia Municipal Judge by Inventing Defendant
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com A Philadelphia municipal judge who pleaded guilty last week to mail and wire fraud charges was caught in the act when the FBI invented a defendant, the Associated Press reports. Judge Joseph Waters Jr., who was suspected of corruption, had no idea that the FBI created a bogus defendant, David Khoury,…
Gang Land News: Crooked CPA Who Sunk ‘Mafia Cops’ Holding Out On Feds
Jerry Capeci is a mob expert who formerly covered the Mafia for the New York Daily News. His website, Gang Land News, is a paid subscription site. This article was re-printed with permission. By Jerry Capeci Gang Land News The crooked accountant whose testimony helped seal the fate of New York’s infamous “Mafia Cops” is back to his…
Convicted Ohio Congressman James Traficant Jr. Dies at 73
By Matt Schudel Washington Post James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Saturday, Sept. 27 at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73. A family…
Are ISIS Militants Plotting to Strike NYC Subway? Security Increases After Threats Disclosed
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Claims by Iraq’s prime minister that ISIS militants have been planning to attack U.S. subways prompted officials in New York to increase surveillance and bag inspections at subways, the Associated Press reports. But Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized that the threats are not verified. To show they…