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Columnist: DEA Agent Joe Piersante “Is Every American’s Hero”
BY MARY ALICE POWELL Toledo Blade Columnist At the Adrian College vs. Kalamazoo College game last weekend the band played the Star Spangled Banner as it always does. Spectators on both sides of the field rose to their feet as the flag was raised, as is expected. But at this game a wave of patriotism…
Obama Has Granted Clemency More Rarely Than Any Modern President
By Dafna Linzer ProPublica A former brothel manager who helped the FBI bust a national prostitution ring. A retired sheriff who inadvertently helped a money launderer buy land. A young woman who mailed ecstasy tablets for a drug-dealing boyfriend, then worked with investigators to bring him All of them and hundreds more were denied pardons…
Secret Service Agent on President’s Detail Apparently Committed Suicide
By Jonathan Allen Politico WASHINGTON –– A member of the president’s Secret Service protective detail, who was being investigated for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement sources. The official cause of Rafael Prieto’s death is still pending. The investigation had…
Defense Attorney Still Questions Whether FBI Agent’s Text Messages Were Destroyed: Govt. Says It Did Nothing Wrong
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal battle between the defense and prosecution is heating up in an undercover FBI sting into gun trafficking in the Philippines. The battle began when deputy Federal Defender John Littrell in Los Angeles accused a a California undercover FBI agent of using taxpayer dollars to pay for prostitutes in the…
Megaupload founder Dotcom Taunts FBI with New Web Site
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year after the FBI raided Kim Dotcom, the creator of the file sharing giant Megaupload, the New Zealand man is taunting federal officials with a new site, Computer World reports. On Tuesday, Dotcom unveiled a teaser page, Kim.com, that is riddled with insults to the U.S. and vows to…
Report: Homeland Security Employees Are Disproportionately Affected by Low Morale
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security is plagued with low morale, much more so than other federal agencies, according to a Department of Homeland Security report. The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office urges the DHS to determine the reason for low morale and solve the problem. “GAO found that despite having…
Committee Trying to Narrow Selection for Chicago U.S. Attorney
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A selection committee in Illinois is working to whittle down the list of potential candidates for Chicago U.S. Attorney, a post that was vacated by Patrick Fitzgerald. Chicago Sun-Times reporters Natasha Korecki and Kim Janssen wrote about the following candidates: ◆ Jonathan Bunge, a former deputy chief of the U.S. attorney’s…