By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal battle between the defense and prosecution is heating up in an undercover FBI sting into gun trafficking in the Philippines. The battle began when deputy Federal Defender John Littrell in Los Angeles accused a a California undercover FBI agent of using taxpayer dollars to pay for prostitutes in the…
Steve Neavking ticklethewire.com DETROIT — A Detroit Muslim leader was unarmed when authorities fatally shot him during a raid inside a suburban warehouse in 2009, the family of the man said in a lawsuit, a claim that’s totally contrary to what the FBI concluded, the Detroit Free Press reports. The suit filed in U.S. District…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ghosts, zombies, witches and princesses. The increasing number of wannabe trick-or-treaters who crossed the Mexican border into the U.S. on Halloween posed tricky challenges to custom inspectors, Fox News reports. Customs and Border Protection has had the painstaking responsiblity of verifying the identify of costumed travelers making their way to El Paso…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A grand jury will probe the deaths of two Guatemalan immigrants in Texas shot from a police helicopter in October, Fox News reports. The grand jury is to determine whether charges should be filed after a Texas Department of Public Service helicopter killed two immigrants hiding in the bed of a truck….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors slammed mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s claims the government gave him immunity to kill, the Boston Herald reports. “Put simply, someone who thought he had immunity would not pay a corrupt FBI agent thousands of dollars in cash, as Stephen Flemmi has admitted that he and Bulger paid to John Connolly,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Young Muslim Americans continue to be lured by terrorists to East Africa to join the ranks of jihadists, ABC News reports. As recently as July, two Americans are believed to have left Minneapolis for Somalia to join al-Shabaab, a terrorist group, ABC News reported. The FBI has been investigating for years the terrorist…
If there’s ever a time to speak up, this is probably it. Mainly because this is one of those words used almost exclusively by people trying to sound smarter than they are. Remind them that when using fake words to at least try to use ones that have some kind of meaning, if they want…
