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“Wearing a Wire” a Term of the Past in the Digital Era?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The times have changed. Wendy Ruderman of New York Times reports that the digital age has made the phrase “wearing a wire” something of the past. “In the old days, they would say, ‘Let me pat you down for a wire’ and boom, everybody would just open their shirt and say,…
A Twist in ATF Task Force Shooting May Make ‘Friendly Fire’ Issue More Complicated
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Investigators are trying to determine if one of two wounded Detroit cops on an ATF task force was injured as a result of friendly fire in a shootout with a murder suspect last week on the city’s west side. That may not be easy. Law enforcement sources familiar…
Part 2: What We Can Do to Confront the Threat of New Designer Drugs from China
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. This is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Part one of this report discussed the…
FBI Probes Release of Video Showing Rutgers Coach Shoving, Kicking Players
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university by threatening to release damaging videos showing ex-coach Mike Rice shoving players and calling them gay slurs, the Associated Press reports. The former employee, Eric Murdock, quit his job last year at the basketball program’s…
Family Urges FBI to Handle Fatal Shootings of Prosecutors in Texas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Family members grieving the murder of a Texas prosecutor and his wife want the FBI to take over the investigation, KMOV 4 St. Louis reports. Family of Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were fatally shot in their home March 31, two months after a prosecutor from the same office was shot…
FBI Visits Home of Ex-CIA Director Petraeus As Part of Investigation into Potential Classified Leak
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trying to determine whether his former lover mishandled classified information, FBI agents questioned former CIA Director David Petraeus at his home in the northern Virginia late last week, Reuters reports. The FBI launched an investigation last year after it was discovered Petraeus had an extra-marital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, whose…
ATF Uses Brain-Damaged Man with Low IQ to Run Drugs, Guns as Part of Federal Probe
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to help to handle drug and gun deals as part of an investigation into a Milwaukee storefront, the AP reports. The man, Chauncey Wright, was paid in cigarettes, merchandise and money, but was charged with federal drug and gun counts once the…