Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Justice Department to investigate what he claims was an elaborate smear campaign by Cuban operatives to destroy his reputation with lies about prostitutes, the Washington Post reports. The New Jersey Democrat, a vociferous critic of Castro’s regime, said Cuban officials created a fake tipster to claim…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. did not violate the constitution or other laws by killing American citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen without due process of law, the Justice Department argues in a previously secret memoir release by a federal court Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The memo was written in 2010, a year before…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Senate is considering a measure already approved by the House that would ban the DEA from using its budget to target marijuana users in states where cannabis is legal for medical purposes, the Huffington Post reports. The amendment to the Justice Department’s budget was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, who…
Washington Post Editorial Board Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003. More than a decade later, many states are only beginning to comply with the law, and prison rape is still a disgusting and pervasive problem across the country. According to the latest Justice Department survey, 4 percent of state and federal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com City and county jails are increasingly rejecting federal requests to hold immigrants who are in the country illegally. Now the Justice Department plans to do something about it – reduce deportation mainly to immigrants who have committed violent crimes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is expected to make…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When is the government authorized to use drones to kill U.S. Citizens overseas? The Justice Department, which has resisted the release of the information, said Tuesday it won’t block the release of a secret drone memo, the USA Today reports. That decision was made easier because the memo’s author, former Justice Department…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has charged five Chinese military officials with cyber-espionage after allegedly hacking into American companies’ computers in an attempt to steal trade secrets. BBC reports that the army officials are accused of stealing trade secrets and internal documents from five U.S. companies and a labor union. China quickly denied the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When James B. Comey became the FBI’s new director last year, many observers believed he’d usher in a new era at the bureau by shifting some of the focus away from terrorism. But the New York Times reports that Comey, a former Justice Department prosecutor who focused on gun cases, appears to…
