Homeland Security Allows Nearly 100 Employees to Collect Pay without Working
Nearly 100 Homeland Security employees are collecting pay while not working.
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U.S. Senator Harshly Criticizes FBI for Handling of Mob Informant Mark Rossetti
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime critic of the FBI, issued some harsh words for the agency in the case of FBI informant Mark Rossetti, a big-time Boston mobster, who was sentenced last week in Suffolk Superior Court to 12 years in prison. Grassley said the Boston FBI hasn’t learned its lesson…
Column: NCAA Shouldn’t Ignore Steroid Problem
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. This column first appeared in the New York Daily News. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the summer of 2004, a Senate sub-committee, chaired by Senators Charles Grassley and Joseph Biden held a…
Grassley Fires Off Letter to Homeland Sec. Napolitano: Concerned About Reduced Searches for Illegals on Northern Border
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A letter from Senator Charles Grassley representing a group of 14 Senators is asking Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to reconsider a policy to end routine traffic checks of buses, trains and other vehicles for illegal aliens along the United State’s northern border. “News of the lessened security will only entice…
Feinstein, Breuer: ATF Needs Improved Gun Laws
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended the ATF at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, reports the website Main Justice, saying the real problem is lax gun laws. “The number of deaths caused by American guns are up in the tens of thousands,” she said, claiming that 70 percent of guns…
Dem Sharply Criticizes Rep. Issa for Attacks on Atty.Gen. Holder Concerning Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Criticism about ATF’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious have overwhelming come from Republicans like Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley. But not everyone agrees with the intensity of the criticism. On Sunday, Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the Oversight & Government Reform Committee, told CBS’ Face the Nation…
Column: Ouch! Make ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious Mess Go Away
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com OUCH! Make it stop. It’s becoming all too painful to see the Congressional probe into ATF’s highly-flawed operation dubbed Fast and Furious. Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been leading the charge into the investigation of the operation that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all…
ATF Was Evasive About Weapons Found at Murder Scene of Border Agent Brian Terry
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF earlier this year tried to play down the fact that guns from its highly problematic Operation Fast and Furious program surfaced at the scene of the slaying of Arizona Border Patrol agent Brian Terry last December, the Los Angeles Times reported. The paper reported that the top ATF supervisors in…
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