Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is the intelligence community on the verge of a major shakeup? Maybe so, the USA Today reports. As public pressure builds against the NSA over more revelations over international and domestic spying, lawmakers are considering major overhauls. “It is time for serious and meaningful reforms so we can restore confidence in our…
The History Channel listed 10 fascinating facts about the FBI. Here are five of them. 1. J. Edgar Hoover served 48 years as director of the FBI, spending 62% of his life at the helm. FBI directors are now restricted to 10-year terms. 2. The FBI went through a variety of names in the early…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If a judge declares that the New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices are unconstitutional, the U.S. Justice Department says it would strongly support a federal monitor to oversee reforms to change that practice, the New York Times reports. The so-called statement of interest was filed Wednesday in Federal District Court. “The experience of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce an array of reforms in the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday as part of the most far-reaching consent decree of its kind, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. A monitor and federal judge will direct the mandated oversight spelled out in a 125-page agreement for…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″….
