By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Eight hundred years ago today, a group of rebellious English barons met with despotic King John at Runnymede near the Thames River and agreed to a peace treaty , the Magna Carta. Negotiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the charter was meant to settle an aristocratic uprising over the unpopular king’s…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA 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″. By Ross…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former DEA agent has been charged with fraud in a scheme in which he allegedly posed as an active FBI agent and helped a person who posed as a former federal prosecutor defraud a man who enlisted their help to recover money in a fraud scheme. David Garcia Herrera, 70,…
By Former Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot For The Hill The idea of merging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) into the FBI has reared its ugly head once again. This idea is wrong in so many ways. As a former chairman of the old Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Subcommittee in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol has absolved agents of 64 of 67 shootings, according to a recently completed review, the Los Angeles Times reports. The shootings, which resulted in 19 deaths, were considered justifiable use of force. Three cases are still under investigation and involve shootings. Charges have not resulted from any of the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Now that many see the TSA as a failure, what’s next next for the beleaguered agency? Give the task back to the airlines? The Hill offers insight, saying private competition may drive down prices but you get what you pay for. More than 13 years after 9/11, we are still struggling…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Andrew G. McCabe, who recently held the FBI’s top national security post, has taken over as assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office. McCabe now heads up the bureau’s second largest field division, which includes Northern Virginia. McCabe’s FBI career began in 19996, when he was assigned to the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI agent who tried to save Tamir Rice’s life after he was shot by a Cleveland police officer described the scene as chaotic and said cops had no idea what to do, Clevaland.com reports. The agent was a paramedic and took charge because the others, he said, “I don’t think…
