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While your body may make people stop and take a second look
Forget the kind where the company rep shows up with a stack of Dixie cups, a couple of bottles, and the inability to tell if his wine is corked. Jean Luc knows how to my Midwestern expression on a feedbag (of wine), and he’s not afraid to open top shelf bottles. Put yourself on his…
“F-bombs” Fly After Witness Calls Whitey Bulger a Rat
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you put two gangsters in a courtroom, and one is testifying against the other, what do you get sometimes? “F-bombs.” On Tuesday, star prosecution witness Kevin Weeks, James, “Whitey” Bulger’s right-hand man, testified against Bulger, saying he watched Bulger kill four men and one woman, according to Richard A. Oppel…
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston and pleaded not guilty. It was his first appearance since he was arrested in April. Tsarnaev was charged in a a 30-count indictment in connection to the April 15 bombing and subsequent manhunt. The charges are…
Opinion: Comey Shows Fierce Independence But Supports Phone, Internet Sweeps
Michael E. Schmidt New York Times President Obama’s nominee for F.B.I. director, James Comey, faced a mostly friendly Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, and he is almost assured confirmation given strong bipartisan support. But his tenure as deputy attorney general in the George W. Bush administration raises important questions about his commitment to civil liberties…
Justice Department Investigates Miami Police for Its Handling of Some Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department will monitor the Miami Police Department because of several police-involved shootings over the past four years that didn’t appear to be justified, the Miami Herald reports. The review, which included police shootings from 2008 to 2011, is part of a civil rights investigation of the Miami police force. Of…
Privacy Rights Group Sues Federal Government Over NSA Surveillance Program
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A privacy rights group is suing the Obama administration over its NSA surveillance program, the USA Today reports. The Electronic Privacy Center has taken the case to the Supreme Court to argue the program is unconstitutional. In its petition to the court, the group said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ‘exceeded its…
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James Comey Defends US Surveillance Practices at FBI Confirmation Hearing
By Spencer Ackerman The Gaurdian President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the FBI forcefully argued to the Senate that the oversight mechanisms on the government’s widespread surveillance of phone records and online habits sufficiently protect Americans’ privacy. James Comey, the former US deputy attorney general, said Tuesday that the secret surveillance court that approves…