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Homeland’s Napolitano Plans to Add More Agency Agents to Afghanistan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced over the weekend that her agency plans to add up to 54 agents in the coming year to Afghanistan to compliment the current lot of 25, the Washington Post reported. The announcement came during Napolitano’s two-day visit to Afghanistan. The added agents will help…
U.S.-Mexico Only Nabbing a Fraction of Drug $$$ Being Smuggled South into Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite their efforts, U.S. and Mexican authorities are seizing no more than one percent of the billions of dollars in drug proceeds being smuggled south into Mexico, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. The cash is being smuggled in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, the…
Pakistani Taliban Directed NY Car Bomber to Use Cash to Hide Trail
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The failed N.Y. car bomber Faisal Shahzad was told by the Pakistani Taliban to pay cash for everything to avoid leaving a trail, the Los Angles Times is reporting. “He paid cash for his gun and he paid cash for the van he acquired,” a source told the Times. “He was…
Jurors in Ex-Cong. William Jefferson Said Mundane Documents — Not $90,000 in FBI Money or FBI Tapes — Convinced Them to Convict
Jefferson stands next to attorney Robert Trout during sentencing last November /Sketch by Art Lien/NBC News By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep.William Jefferson was hardly a household name — that is until FBI agents found $90,000 in his freezer at his Capitol Hill home on Aug. 3, 2005. In the public’s eye, that seemed to be…
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