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. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″. By…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. is expanding its war on drugs to Africa, the New York Times reports. Targeting areas used to smuggle Latin American cocaine into Europe, the U.S. is training an elite unit of counter-narcotics police in Ghana and plans to do so with Nigeria and Kenya. The aggressive position in Africa is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As FBI Director Louie Freeh oversaw some of the biggest investigations in the nation including the Oklahoma bombing and the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Africa. Now as a private lawyer and consultant, he’s being asked to tackle a task with a little less world import. The New York Times…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Saying they didn’t wish to delay the trial, federal prosecutors on Sunday said they won’t appeal a judge’s ruling that bans a key witness from testifying in the first criminal trial of Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspect, Reuters news service reported. “The government . . . has decided not to pursue an…
