ATF’s Scott Sweetow Moving Up to Deputy Assistant Director

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, who heads up ATF’s St. Paul, Minn., office is moving up the chain. He”ll be taking over the job as Deputy Assistant Director for ATF’s Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information (OSII). His new responsibilities will include ATF’s partner engagement liaison with the intelligence community, overseeing ATF’s foreign operations…

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FBI Agent Admits He May Have Violated Justice Department Rules in Case of Cuban Immigrants

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent acknowledged on the witness stand Tuesday that he may have unknowingly violated Justice Department guidelines in the case of there Cuban immigrants accused of the theft of drugs and expensive merchandise in the Las Vegas Valley. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that FBI Agent Shay Christensen admitted during cross-examination…

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Bi-Partisan Panel: States Should Use Single Drug for Executions to Reduce Errors

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts concluded that states should administer capital punishment with a single drug approved by the U.S. government for executions, the Washington Post reports. The legal research team called the Constitution Project released the 165-page study, which also calls for lethal-injection protocols in each of the 35…

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