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USA Today Investigation: ATF Drug Stings Targeted Minorities
By Brad Heath USA Today WASHINGTON — The nation’s top gun-enforcement agency overwhelmingly targeted racial and ethnic minorities as it expanded its use of controversial drug sting operations, a USA TODAY investigation shows. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has more than quadrupled its use of those stings during the past decade, quietly…
Blistering Human Rights Report: FBI Pushed Muslims to Plot Terrorist Attacks
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department used questionable tactics to identify and prosecute terrorism suspects, a new human rights report offers, the Washington Post reports. Human Rights Watch offered a scathing assessment of the FBI and Justice Department, which are accused of injecting fear into some Muslim communities because of the use of surveillance and…
DNA Evidence Exonerates Man in 1982 Slaying Following Discovery of FBI Lab Error
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who spent 26 years in prison in the 1982 slaying of a Washington woman was exonerated following the discovery that the FBI made a critical lab error during the investigation, the Washington Post reports. Kevin Martin, 50, who long maintained his innocence, was cleared following DNA evidence that contradicted FBI…
Texas Gov. Perry to Deploy National Guard Troops to Border Over Immigration Surge
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas Gov. Rick Perry is taking matters into his own hands and is reportedly planning to dispatch the Texas National Guard to the U.S. border to crack down on Central American immigrants, the Washington Post reports. Perry plans to mobilize about 1,000 guardsman to the Rio Grand Valley. “I won’t stand idly…
Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.” The book by Ronald Kessler claims…
Border Patrol Agent Points Gun At Head of Boy Scout for Snapping Photo
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at the head of a Boy Scout and threatened to arrest him for snapping a picture of an agent near the Canadian border, KCCI reports. The Iowa Boy Scout troop was on a three-week trip to Alaska when the incident happened, Troop 111 leader Jim…
Issa: Special Prosecutor Needed for Uncompromised IRS probe
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif) wrote this column for the San Diego Union-Tribune. By Darrell Issa In May 2013, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation into efforts of an Internal Revenue Service division, which under the supervision of former Director Lois Lerner, systematically selected organizations with conservative sounding names for delay and enhanced scrutiny….
Head of Homeland Security Investigations for ICE Started Career Chasing Crack Dealers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Peter Edge, who became head of Homeland Security Investigations for ICE in May, began his law enforcement career began chasing crack cocaine dealers in Newark, NJ.com wrote in a feature about Edge. “He had a very calm demeanor,” said Robert Laurino, who worked with Edge in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. “Nothing…