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Feds Charging Moms and Others With Terrorism Aboard Planes
Is an irate mother aboard a plane who spanks her child a terrorist? Are the feds going too far charging people on planes with acts of terrorism? Could be. By Ralph Vartabedian and Peter Pae Los Angeles Times Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City — Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight…
Fed Grand Jury Indicts Investor For Crashing Plane and Faking Death
This, fair to say, is not your typical federal crime. But it may not be so far fetched to say it would make a good movie. Or maybe a great one. By Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal grand jury indicted an Indiana investment adviser Tuesday on charges of deliberately crashing his small airplane…
Columnist Says U.S. Better Step Up Efforts to Help Mexico In Violent Drug War
Some experts say the U.S. better get more proactive and help the Mexican government fight drugs. The consequences of not helping out enough could be devastating. By Michael Braun Security DeBrief After I read Tony Kimery’s outstanding article in HSToday entitled, ‘Savage Struggle on the Border,’ I could not help but dwell on the irony…
Inauguration Goes Off Without Glitches Despite Intelligence Reports That A Radical Somalia Group Might Try to Disrupt It
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The most security-intense inauguration of our times went off without apparent glitches Tuesday, even in wake of intelligence reports of a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group. The Associated Press reported that law enforcement and intelligence officials got word that a Somalia-based group, al-Shabaab, might…
Canadian Border Agents Deny Controversial Figure Bill Ayers Entry Into Country
Bill Ayers, who became a controversial figure in the 2008 presidential campaign, has once again garnered some unwanted attention. Was this a matter of politics? After all, he’d been in Canada many times before. By Marina Jimenez Toronto Globe and Mail An American academic and former 1960s radical accused by U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin…
Bush Cuts Sentence of 2 Texas U.S. Border Patrol Agents
Citizens and politicians on both sides of the fence pushed for this. In the final hours, President Bush came through for them. By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON – In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for…
Tex. U.S. Atty. Sutton Praises Bush Decision to Cut Border Agents’ Sentences But Keep Conviction
U.S. Atty. Sutton/doj photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a carefully worded statement, Texas U.S. Atty. Johnny Sutton Thursday night praised Pres. Bush for cutting two Texas Border Agents’ sentences, but upholding their convictions for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug dealer and covering up the incident. “Today, the President exercised his power under the…