Justice Dept. Legal Assistant Indicted in Maryland on Drug Trafficking Charges

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Justice Department legal assistant has been charged in Maryland with cocaine trafficking, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday. Wilson Lee Garrett,  35, of Waldorf, Md., faces charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine. According to the the U.S. Attorney’s Office,…

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Lawmakers Annoyed Over No Masks in Swine Flu Outbreak

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Lawmakers didn’t mask their annoyance Thursday during a subcommittee hearing with Homeland Security’s undersecretary of management Elaine C. Duke. “Your excuses are lame when you say you’re following the medical advice,” the subcommittee chairman, Stephen F. Lynch, (D-Mass.) told Duke, according to a report in the Washington Post. The…

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