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Seattle Times: ATF Needs to Provide More Regulatory Oversight After Gun Shop Blunder
By Seattle Times Editorial Board Revelations about the sloppy, arrogant business practices of a nationally known Skagit County retailer with a lethal inventory are stunning. To know that Kesselring Gun Shop had been arming generations with virtually no regulatory oversight, even after grotesque violations were discovered, made Seattle Times reporter Mike Carter’s story all the…
Parker: Supreme Court to Consider Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
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. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The U. S. Supreme Court will hear argument today on two cases involving warrantless searches of cell phones. The case is probably…
Column: The U.S. Government’s Hypocrisy When It Comes to Freedom of the Press
By Trevor Timm Freedom of the Press Foundation The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual “Free the Press” campaign today, which will purportedly highlight “journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise oppressed because of their reporting.” A noble mission for sure. But maybe they should kick off the campaign…
Homeland Security Department Goes Way Beyond Its Original Mission to Protect U.S. from Terrorists
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security, which was created in November 2002 following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has gone far beyond its original purpose and is being used to investigate crimes unlearned to terrorism, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The new law was simple: “The primary mission of the department is to prevent…
U.S. Rep. Michael G. Grimm to Surrender to Federal Authorities on Charges Tied to Old Business
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Michael G. Grimm, the New York Congressman under investigation over his past ownership of a restaurant in Manhattan, is expected to turn himself over to federal authorities today, the Washington Post reports. Grimm faces multiple charges connected to his former Manhattan health food restaurant that had ties with an Israeli fundraiser. The…
Secret Service’s Quick-Acting Rescue Caught on Camera Outside of White House
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two quick-acting Secret Service agents are being credited with saving the life of a 59-year-old woman who collapsed in front of the White House, ABC News reports. The first patrolling Secret Service Uniformed Division officer on scene discovered the woman had no pulse Thursday afternoon. “He assessed the situation, she was unconscious…
Washington State Gun Store That ‘Lost’ or had Stolen Nearly 2,500 Guns Stayed Open for 8 Years
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It took eight years for the ATF to shut down a gun store in Washington state that had nearly 2,500 guns stolen or lost, Raw Story reports.To put that into perspective, there were fewer than 200 combined guns missing at the state’s other 1,093 stores. “Stunning,” James Zammillo, a former ATF deputy…
On This Day in 1973: FBI Chief Patrick Gray Quits in Wake of Watergate Scandal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patrick Gray was the acting head of the FBI when he was pressured to resign on April 28, 1973, in the wake of the President Nixon Watergate scandal, the Guardian reports. Gray’s resignation came after news that he had burned incriminating documents tied to convicted Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt. Gray was in…