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New 2010 Budget Reveals FBI’s Development of New Surveillance Technology
The FBI, which has been criticized in the past for not always being up to snuff in the area of computers, is trying to advance its high-tech capabilities. The money is there. Now it’s up to the bureau to follow through. By Jason Ryan ABC NEWS WASHINGTON — The release of the 2010 budget request…
Weekend Series: More on J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys
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Calif. Woman Pleads Guilty to Selling Endangered Sea Turtle Guitar Picks
By Brian Schott ticklethewire.com China has a well-known taste for trading in strange and exotic animal parts. Bear bile. Rhinoceros horn. But endangered sea turtle guitar picks? Qing Song, a Santa Rosa, Calif., woman, pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Francisco federal court to violating the Lacey Act by importing from China guitar picks and turtle…
Tomato Industry “Ripe” with Fraud: Former Sales Broker Convicted in Fed Court of Bribery
The former purchasing director for Nabisco had steered contracts for tomatoes to SK Foods at inflated prices in exchange for bribes. SK Foods had formerly been in trouble for lying about the quality of potentially mold-filled shipments of tomato. Maybe these people should face a firing squad armed with moldy tomatoes. By Denny Walsh Sacramento…
FBI to Pay $879,550 For Scientific Review of Deadly Anthrax Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nine months after the real suspect in the anthrax killings committed suicide, there are still plenty unanswered questions as to why the FBI let its top investigator on the case focus for so long on the wrong guy, Steven Hatfill, even after some investigators and prosecutors expressed serious skepticism…
A Number of Women Landing Top Spots at Homeland Security
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Though law enforcement is still often considered a “boys club”, women are landing a number of top spots at the Department of Homeland Security. Rich Cooper, a columnist for Security DeBrief, has compiled an impressive list of woman holding top spots besides Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano. “While I’ve not…
Justice Dept. Public Integrity Unit Needs New Shot of Integrity and Rehab
It might be just a little ironic that the integrity of the Public Integrity Unit is on shaky ground these days. This once elite unit has taken a beating of late and the Atty. General knows he’s got a lot of work to do to turn things around. By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON…
Grand Jury Probing Whether Philly Cop Helped Tip Drug Kingpin About ATF Raid
These type of breaches undermine the integrity of the system and reminds us that the this type of corruption just doesn’t happen south of the border. By John Shiffman and George Anastasia Inquirer Staff Writers PHILADELPHIA — Hours before ATF agents raided his home and arrested him in 2005, Philadelphia drug kingpin Alton “Ace Capone”…