Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has announced an end to challenging state laws that permit residents to use marijuana for recreation and medical use, the USA Today reports. The directive was sent to federal prosecutors nationwide. But there are conditions. The Justice Department, for example, will still go after anyone who sells pot to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little-known FBI crime lab near Washington played a critical role in convicting two men who helped target American soldiers in Iraq with improvised exploding devices, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammad pleaded guilty to smuggling Stinger surface-to-air missiles and money to terrorists in Iraq from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John C. Bates, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Blaine Sector, was removed from his post Monday after serving for six years as chief patrol agent for the sector, the Bellingham Herald reports. The reason, however, remained a mystery this morning after authorities declined to say what happened. Bates was in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been behaving well. The Associated Press reports that he’s behaved well in the past year when leaving his home, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, to visit his mother in nearby Virginia. AP reported that Secret Service agents trailed Hinckley…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former top DEA officials who have been loudly urging the federal government to nullify marijuana decriminalization in Washington and Colorado stand to profit from making pot illegal, the U.S. News & World Report revealed. The retired officials, Robert L. DuPont, former White House drug czar under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the federal government doesn’t act soon, it may lose the chance to stamp out recreational pot laws in Colorado and Washington, cautioned eight former DEA officials, the Associated Press reports. Although voters legalized small amounts of possession last year in those states, the law still conflicts with a federal ban on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington state residents who smoke pot today in celebration of the first day of marijuana decriminalization better be on the watch for federal authorities, the Justice Department said Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. “Regardless of any changes in state law, including the change that will go into effect on Dec. 6 in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An international fugitive in one of the largest eco-terrorism cases in U.S. history surrendered to authorities Thursday after nearly a decade on the lam, Fox 31 reports. Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, 39, surrendered to the FBI at the international border of Blaine, Wash. Rubin is accused of firebombing sites in Colorado, California and…
