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FBI Names New Special Agent in Charge of Kansas City Division
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert Mueller named a new special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City Division, the Kansas City Star reports. Michael Kaste, who has worked with the FBI since 1988, is replacing Brian Truchon, who is now assigned to the bureau’s information technology engineering division. Most recently chief of the…
” At the VIP party, guests paying $3,500 will get to mingle
The magazine which posted the cover image, as it does every week, on its own website dedicates an issue annually to African American publishing. But something about the picture and the phrasing got on people nerves. Cover context = Entirely less stupendous.” And “Straight up Canada Goose Outlet, this could flown as a GREAT cover….
Been blowing up on us as they say
Setting itself terms not just for their constituencies but for the country as a whole, these members of Congress reduced the full repertoire of possibilities for policy to a narrower set of feasible options that met with their approval, or at least their forbearance. No noteworthy lawmaking the New Deal accomplished could have passed without…
Rise in Pill Abuse Forces New Look at U.S. Drug Fight
By DAMIEN CAVE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT New York Times MEXICO CITY — America’s drug problem is shifting from illicit substances like cocaine to abuse of prescription painkillers, a change that is forcing policy makers to re-examine the long and expensive strategy of trying to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States. Related This…
Ohio Man Fatally Shot by FBI Was Registered Sex Offender
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Ohio man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent during a raid on his home on June 28 was a registered sex offender, the Dayton Daily News reports. Fallacy Myers, 43, was convicted of indecent solicitation of a child in 1995 in Kansas, and was a registered sex offender until…
First Two Female FBI Agents Faced Challenges
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Women were not allowed to become FBI agents until weeks after longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died, the FBI reports in a series about female special agents. The bureau changed its policy, in part because of new equal-rights laws. The first women of the modern era to become special agents were…
Paterno Family Skeptical of Louie Freeh’s Findings in Sex Scandal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joe Paterno’s family pledged Monday to launch its own investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, saying ex-FBI Director Louie Freeh, who headed up the investigation, got it wrong, the Associated Press reports. “Our interest has been and remains the uncovering of the truth,” the family said in a statement….
April Brooks First Woman to Head FBI’s New York Criminal Division
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com April Brooks will become the first woman to head the criminal division of the FBI’s New York office, Business Week reports. FBI DIrector Robert Mueller named Brooks, 45, as special agent in charge of the office’s criminal division, which has handled terrorism and insider-trading cases. Brooks replaces Diego Rodriguez, who was promoted…