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Former Federal Official: Fed Prosecution of Zimmerman Case Would be A Mistake
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 acquittal Saturday of George Zimmerman in a Florida state courtroom has already brought cries by civil rights leaders for a federal…
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Janet Napolitano Says Adios: Stepping Down as Head of Homeland Security
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Janet Napolitano, who had been a steady hand in the Obama administration for more than four years, announced Friday she was stepping down as head of the Department of Homeland Security to take a job as president of the University of California system. “For more than four years I have had…
Judge Denies Postponement of ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s Murder, Racketeering Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge in the murder and racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger rejected a bid by the accused mobster’s attorneys to postpone the case, the Boston Globe reports. Defense attorneys have complained that Bulger, who is 83, is getting weak from the long court days. They also say they need more…
Opinion: Unpaid Scholarships at Justice Department ‘Misguided And Unethical’
By Sarah Mahmood PolicyMic.com If you naively thought that the unpaid internship grind would end after college, when all your uncompensated hard work would land you a fancy job upon graduation, you thought wrong. Forget college, it apparently doesn’t even end after graduate school. What’s even more disheartening is that not only is this practice…
Microsoft Helped NSA, FBI Access Personal User Information
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Microsoft Corp has helped U.S. intelligence service intercept users’ communication, Reuters reports. The software company also permitted the NSA to circumvent email encryption to gain access to users. The information comes from documents released to the Guardian by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Among the communication collected was conversations on Skype, an online…
Ex-FBI Director Freeh Facing Libel, Defamation Suit Over Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI director Louis Freeh is being sued for libel and defamation over his detailed report about the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, the Associated Press reports. The university’s former president, Graham Spanier, initiated the suit because of how he was characterized in the report. The filing came…