Good to see there’s some sense of energy conservation going on. By Mike M. Ahlers and Eric Marrapodi CNN WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Barack Obama promoted hybrid cars. As president, he’ll be handed the keys to one. Sort of. Shortly after taking the oath of office, Obama will climb into the Mother of All…
The last thing the Obama administration wants to do is repeat how the Bush folks handled U.S. Attorney hirings and firings. Joe Palazzolo Legal Times WASHINGTON –In a meeting last month with Barack Obama’s transition staff, representatives of the nation’s top prosecutors caught a glimpse of the president-elect’s thinking on the politically fraught issue of…
Some of these folks look irritated enough just doing their job. Do they need this? By Steve Vogel Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The new blue uniforms issued to Transportation Security Administration officers at hundreds of airports nationwide may have a snazzy look, but they have become a major irritant for some of those…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — I just finished watching the first episode of ABC’s “Homeland Security USA” and I can honestly say the best thing about it was the Domino’s Pizza commercial about its new baked submarine sandwiches. Simply put: ABC deserves a D. The show falls flat. Sure there’s some drugs seized and…
The questionable judgment of TSA and the airlines is costing money. By The Associated Press NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union said Monday JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration paid $240,000 to a man who claimed he was discriminated against based on his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt. Raed…
Ronald C. Ruecker has been named the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Office of Law Enforcement Coordination (OLEC). He replaces Louis F. Quijas, who retired to take a position in private industry, the FBI said. Prior to taking his new post, Ruecker was the Director of Public Safety for the City of Sherwood, Oregon, the…
I saw Griffin Bell’s name every morning for almost three decades when I entered my office in the Detroit U. S. Attorney’s Office. His signature was on the DOJ certificate which hung behind my desk. His death this week, at age 90, brings to mind subjects like civility and the gradual approach to solving problems…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – An FBI affidavit unsealed Monday provides a few new details of gruesome allegations against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in the 2007 shootings in Baghdad that left at least 14 Iraqi civilians dead and 20 wounded. Washington FBI agent John M. Patarini , in a 3-page affidavit, wrote…
