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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Elliot Doxer has become Massachusetts’ first ever individual prosecuted for foreign economic espionage, according to a statement from the FBI. Doxer was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement and electronic monitoring on Tuesday, as well as fined $25,000, after providing trade secrets to an undercover…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Every day, thousands of federal law enforcement agents wake up, grab their gun and badge and a cup of java, orange juice or tea and go out into the world to protect the public and enforce the laws. Unfortunately, every year, a few step over the line — way over the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Investigators in the prosecution of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking top secret documents to WikiLeaks, may face a backlash from activist hackers online, reports NextGov.com. Gregg Housh, an Internet activist who follows the pro-WikiLeaks hacking collective known as “Anonymous”, said there is talk in the chat rooms of retaliating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Partisan politics inside the Beltway has been around forever. That’s a given. Unfortunately, these days it has reached such ridiculous heights. That being said, if the Republicans had been serious at all about pressuring Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to resign, they would have been a little smarter and tried to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Partisan politics inside the Beltway has been around forever. That’s a given. Unfortunately, these days it has reached such ridiculous heights. That being said, if the Republicans had been serious at all about pressuring Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to resign, they would have been a little smarter and tried to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A failed city council candidate from Carson, Calif. has caught the attention of the Secret Service after posting racist commentary about the president on Facebook, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jules Manson, who ran in March for city council on the Libertarian platform, called Barack Obama a “monkey,” then called for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man charged in the Feb. 15 murder in Mexico of ICE agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE agent Victor Avila has been extradited from Mexico to the U.S. to face trial. The Justice Department announced the charges and the extradition on Wednesday of Julian Zapata Espinoza, aka…