By Los Angeles Times Editorial Board The new head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s internal affairs office made a troubling assertion late last week. Since 2004, he said, the agency has apparently taken no disciplinary action against any of its agents who have used deadly force. That follows a report released in February by…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board Debo Adegbile, President Obama‘s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, is an experienced litigator and specialist in civil rights law. In a rational world, he would receive unanimous confirmation. But as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on his nomination, Adegbile faces…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 26-year-old Reuters editor is charged with helping computer hacker, Anonymous, break into the LA Times’ website, the Huffington Post reports. It’s not that Matthew Keys was trying to keep his relationship with Anonymous a secret. According to the Huffington Post, Keys boasted on a blog in March 2011 that he chatted…
By Lisa Sweetingham LA Weekly William C. Rempel, who for 36 years worked as an investigative reporter and editor at the L.A. Times, has written the book At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel, which came out last month. The insider in question is Jorge Salcedo,…
