By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA and Justice Department have been secretly amassing logs of nearly all international phone calls that originated from the U.S., the USA Today reports. The collection of billions of calls came nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The government has tracked calls to as many as 116…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former federal agents are accused of stealing bitcoins while investigating the online drug marketplace Silk Road. The Huffington Post reports that Carl Force, 46, a former DEA special agent, and Shaun Bridges, 32, an ex-special agent with the Secret Service, were arrested and charged, the Justice Department announced Monday. Force…
By BENJAMIN WEISER and MATT APUZZO New York Times Two former federal agents are expected to be arrested on Monday on charges of stealing money while working undercover on an investigation into Silk Road, the once-thriving black market website for drug dealing, a document shows. The former agents are Carl Mark Force IV, who worked…
By Sari Horwitz The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Drug Enforcement Administration agents allegedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by local drug cartels overseas over a period of several years, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s watchdog. The report does not specify the country where the parties occurred, but a law…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA continues to seize and destroy less marijuana under the Obama administration, the Washington Post reports. Last year the DEA destroyed 4.3 million marijuana plants, compared to 10.4 million in 2009. The “cannabis eradication program” provides money to local and state law enforcement agencies to destroy marijuana plants. But those…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four burglars masquerading as DEA agents were busted in the act. WKYT.com reports that Lexington Police interrupted these burglars at an apartment complex where they had barged in early this morning, claiming to be part of a DEA sting. “Some officers responded. They ended up interrupting a burglary. As they did…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has proposed numerous reasons to oppose medical marijuana – health effects, lack of motivation, dependency. But the latest reason given by a DEA agent may be the most memorable. Speaking to a Utah Senate panel about a bill that would allow certain patients to consume edible cannabis, Special Agent Matt…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All nine of the DEA’s former administrators signed an amicus brief that was filed Thursday in support of a Supreme Court petition challenging Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws, Politico reports. The directors are siding with Oklahoma and Nebraska’s Supreme Court petition that challenges legalization. The law in Colorado “gravely menace[s]…[t]he health, comfort…
