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NSA Phone Surveillance Generates More Than 1,000 Tips a Year for FBI to Investigate
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI receives more than 1,000 tips a year from information gathered from the NSA’s phone-surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal reports. Newly declassified documents reveal that the NSA averages three tips a day that lead to terrorism probes. “With respect to any information the FBI receives as a result of this…
Murderer, Child Rapist Volunteers to Be Studied by Behavioral Analysts While in Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Elias Acevedo Sr. said he doesn’t know why he raped children and killed two women more than 15 years ago. Acevedo has agreed to be studied by behavioral analysts who work with the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime pleading guilty to the crimes last month, The Columbus Dispatch reports….
President Obama: Marijuana No Worse Than Drinking Alcohol; Laws Should Be More Equitable
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama said smoking marijuana is no worse than drinking alcohol. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of…
Border Patrol Agent Fatally Shoots Man Following Scuffle in Southern Arizona
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in southern Arizona following a struggle between the pair, the Associated Press reports. Authorities were tracking a group of people Thursday night on suspicion of being in the country illegally. While two of the suspect were apprehended, a third escaped. He was…
Two ATF Agents Wounded in Oklahoma Shooting While Trying to Arrest Suspect
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two ATF agents were wounded in Oklahoma after trying to arrest a man wanted in a shooting, the Associated Press reports. The agents, whose names were not revealed, were treated and released and sustained no serious injuries. Seventeen-year-old Henry Jackson was shot and killed by local police after he opened fire on…
Parker: Some Quirky Ways to Reduce Crime
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 Some Quirky Ways to Reduce Crime There are scores of proposals for methods and programs to reduce crime. And there is no…
A Mexican Militia, Battling Michoacan Drug Cartel, Has American Roots
By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Staff Writer LA ESTACION, Mexico — Jorge Rios, 11 rifle rounds and a silver cross decorating his black flak jacket, lost his job as a dishwasher in Tucson for driving without a license. Santos Ramos Vargas, at 43 the oldest of this gang, got deported from Menlo Park, Calif., when he…