By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the Spring of 1989, a drama fraught with irony began playing out in Austria. A Jewish American family, a mother and her two grown sons, were fighting extradition to the US. About 50 years before, Jewish families were desperately trying to leave Austria for safe havens like the U.S. The…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The fight against the opioid epidemic has targeted two new recreational drugs being used on the streets as substitutes for heroin and fentanyl. Both U-4700 and Kratom have been on DEA’s radar screen, as well as US Poison Control Centers, in the last few months because of their increased use in…
Greg Stejskal was an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com I was one of more than a dozen FBI agents assigned to surveillance on Braeburn Circle on Ann Arbor’s south side. After a few hours, agent Stan Lapekas, suggested we look…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com One out of five voters said that the Supreme Court was the most important issue of the Presidential campaign. They voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. The President-elect has published two lists of about 20 possibilities for his Supreme Court appointees. “Appointees” plural since there is one vacancy and three of the…
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. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com With only a pair of criminal cases on the Oral Argument docket in November, the Court will primarily focus on civil and administrative…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The Journal of the American Medical Association reported recently about a forty-year study in Australia about the effect on gun-related crime by the 1997 major gun law reform. The study compared the number of mass fatal shooting incidents, rates of fatal shooting incidents, firearm deaths, and firearm-caused suicides for the periods…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The other day, a commentator on MSNBC described FBI Director James Comey as having a Boy Scout image. That’s a good thing for an FBI director. The problem is that Comey appears to have become a prisoner of that image, and has placed more importance on his image and the FBI’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ok, so it’s an election year where both sides in the presidential race have been endlessly accusing one another of lying. Perhaps, having been out of the game for a while, former Congressman Gary Condit, a blue dog Democrat from California, feels left out and has the itch to lie, too….
