By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A failed city council candidate from Carson, Calif. has caught the attention of the Secret Service after posting racist commentary about the president on Facebook, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jules Manson, who ran in March for city council on the Libertarian platform, called Barack Obama a “monkey,” then called for…
By Michael Gerson The Washington Post The closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and civilian trials for terrorists were more than policy changes proposed by Barack Obama as a presidential candidate. They were presented as a return to constitutional government – a dividing line from an uncivilized past. The indefinite detention of terrorists, according to…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News A white man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for burning down a predominately African-American church in Springfield, Mass., the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election. Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Springfield for the 2008 burning of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Tennessee White Supremacist who planned to go on a killing spree of African-Americans and kill Barack Obama during his campaign for the presidency is off to prison for 14 years. Daniel Cowart, 22, of Bells, Tenn. was sentenced Friday in Tennessee after he pleaded guilty earlier in the year to…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insulted — albeit inadvertently — the folks at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today by mentioning the FBI instead of their agency in remarks about the war on drugs. At a town hall meeting in Washington aired on MTV, the president told a group…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They may be brothers, but their attorneys seem to be mapping out conflicting strategies. Robert Blogojevich, brother of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has filed a motion to keep FBI recordings from airing in their upcoming public corruption trial, the Chicago Tribune reports. Brother Rod has indicated that he has nothing to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The criminal case against ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich can only get more interesting. In the latest move, his lawyers have asked for the FBI interviews of then President-elect Barack Obama,his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The lawyers in a court…
Besides protecting the president, the Secret Service has long investigated counterfeiting and other financial crimes. Is the agency spreading itself too thin? Some think so. By Bryan Bender Boston Globe WASHINGTON – The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten…
