By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than 2,200 people have been arrested in the past 22 months — 429 of them Wednesday — in a crackdown on Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the U.S. dubbed “Project Deliverance”, the Justice Department announced. Among those arrested was Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, the suspected leader of the Castro-Rocha drug trafficking…
By New Orleans Times-Picayune Editorial NEW ORLEANS — The Justice Department’s investigation into possible criminal and civil violations related to BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an important and necessary step. The more Americans learn about the decisions and missteps that may have contributed to the disaster, the more it seems that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, the Justice Department is going after those involved in the ugliest oil spill in U.S. history. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. announced Tuesday in New Orleans that the Justice Department was launching a criminal and civil probe into the Gulf spill that continues to kill wildlife and livelihoods and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – About a dozen police chiefs from cities like Phoenix, Tuscon, Houston and Los Angeles plan to meet Wednesday with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to express concerns about Arizona’s new immigration law, CNN is reporting. CNN said the chiefs will voice concerns that the new law will “drive a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On a pleasant spring night, thousands of police officers from every corner of the nation gathered here Thursday for the 22nd annual candle light vigil to pay respect to their fallen brethren who died in the line of duty and to hear speakers including Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr….
By The Tennessean Editorial Page MEMPHIS — First give credit where it is due: to local New York and federal authorities who tracked down and apprehended the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing. In the nine days since Faisal Shahzad was placed in custody, he has been interviewed at great length and yielded much…
Steven Levin was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland and North Carolina for 10 years before forming a law firm Levin & Gallagher. He had previously served on active duty for seven years in the United States Army as a defense counsel, an appellate attorney and a trial attorney. He is the co-author of a…
By Jeff Stein SpyTalk WASHINGTON — Poor ATF: It don’t get no respect. NYPD’s Ray Kelly, Attorney General Holder and DHS honcho Janet Napolitano all heaped praise on themselves and each other for their fabulous work in the Times Square bomb case. But the ATF? Nada. Out of sight, out of mind, evidently, overlooked like…
