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FBI Forensic Artists Construct Facial Models of Missing Bodies
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI artists are crafting facial models of people whose remains were found and never identified, The Virginian-Pilot reports. The idea is to release the images to the public and hope someone can identify them Forensic artists construct “facial approximations ” using plastic and molding material, The Virginian Pilot reported. The busts were…
Justice Department Faces Serious Cuts If Sequestration Isn’t Avoided Today
Steve Neavling ticklethewire The Justice Department faces $1.6 billion in cuts – nearly 10% of it budget – if Congress and the White House can’t reach an agreement on the nation’s spending plan by later today, NPR reports. Obama earlier warned of big cuts to federal law enforcement. “FBI Agents will be furloughed,” Obama warned….
Border Patrol Uses Drones to Track Down Illegal Immigrants, Drugs
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Customs and Border Protection has purchased 10 drones since 2005 to hunt down illegal immigrants, ABC 10 News reports. The Predator drones helped track down nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants and nine tons of marijuana, ABC News reported, citing records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The local ACLU said drones pose…
Homeland Security Director Napolitano Denied Role in Release of Illegal Immigrants Ahead of Sequestration
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano said she had no part in the recent release of hundreds of low-risk, undocumented immigrant detainees ahead of impending federal spending cuts under the sequestration, ABC News reports. “Detainee populations and how that is managed back and forth is really handled by career officials in…
ATF Revitalization Plans Face Opposition
By Sari Horwitz and Peter Finn Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s plans to energize the embattled agency that regulates the firearms industry and investigates gun violence are already running into trouble on Capitol Hill, foreshadowing the difficulties facing the president as he moves to advance his gun-control agenda. President Obama announced his…
Investigation: AG, FBI Abusing Use of Corporate-Style Jets Intended to Fight Terrorism
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two corporate-style jets that the FBI insisted it needed for the global fight against terrorism are primarily being used for personal and business trips by Attorney General Eric Holder, the former AG and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the Washington Guardian reports. Taxpayers financed “non-mission flights” on the luxury Gulfstream V jet to…
FBI Defies Judge’s Order to Hand Over More Evidence to George Zimmerman
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for the FBI are defying a judge’s orders to hand over all of its evidence to defendant George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing an unarmed black teenager with a gun, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Justice Department argues in paperwork filed this week that the state court cannot trump…
Opinion: FBI Continues to Target Vulnerable, Psychologically Troubled Muslims
Mercury News Opinion by Fadi A. Saba The Federal Bureau of Investigation a track record of attacking the undesirables of the time. In the early part of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy were the focus; in the 1940s, it was Japanese-Americans; in the 1950s, it was Americans who questioned U.S. foreign policy; in the…