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DEA Paid Amtrak Insider $854,000 for Passenger Data It Could Have Gotten for Free
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA forked over $854,460 to an Amtrak secretary for confidential information the agency should have gotten for free, according to an internal investigation. The DEA paid the employee to be an informant despite the agency’s right to obtain the information at no cost as part of a joint drug enforcement task…
FBI Opens Civil Rights Investigation of Fatal Shooting By Cops of Unarmed Teen
The FBI has launched a civil rights investigation to determine what prompted a police officer to shoot an unarmed blacked teenager in a St. Louis suburb on Saturday afternoon. The New York Times reports the inquiry into Michael Brown’s death came on the third day of protests. Ferguson, a city of 21,000 residents, has a history…
FBI Sketch Artist Writes Tell-All Book About Tracking Down Criminals
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former sketch artist for the FBI has written a tell-all book about his 32 years working with the bureau, the New York Post reports. Gene O’Donnell, who is shopping his book “Faces of Crime: Memoirs of an FBI Forensic Artist,” said he’s had a lot of bizarre experiences at the bureau,…
Secret Service Gives Child ‘Timeout’ for Slipping Through White House Fence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service agents are used to the jumpers – the people who hop over the White House fence. But Thursday night was different when a toddler slipped through the gate in site of arms officers trained to protect the president, the Associated Press reports. His discipline? Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said the…
NAACP Calls for FBI Investigation into Killing of Unarmed Teen Near St. Louis
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil unrest over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police turned into looting and vandalism Sunday evening as investigators try to piece together what happened. The Associated Press reports that the St. Louis County chapter of the NAACCP is urging the FBI to take over the case of 18-year-old Michael…
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Opinion: A Border Patrol Without Borders
By John Stossel Pittsburgh Tribune-Review If I drive across a U.S. border, I expect to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. But imagine driving to the grocery store, or Mom’s house, well inside America, and being stopped by the Border Patrol. Many Americans don’t have to imagine it — it’s how they live. Even as…
Protesters Crawl Under Border Patrol Truck in Attempt to Stop Arrest
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Protesters crawled under a Border Patrol vehicle to stop agents from transporting a driver who was taken into custody for being in the U.S. without documentation, the Tuscon News Now reports. The incident happened at 2:45 p.m. when Tucson police pulled over a driver for making an improper turn. Saying the driver…
Retired-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns Open Letter to Congress
To the Honorable Members of the Senate and House of Representatives: My name is Jay Dobyns. In January of this year, I retired from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after twenty-seven years of decorated service. Today is the six-year anniversary of the arson of my home. My wife and two children were inside…