FBI Background Checks for Guns Often Miss Those Who Would Be Banned

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Mentally ill people, drug offenders and others who are prohibited from owning guns often are able to obtain a firearm because the required FBI background checks have significant flaws, the New York Times reports. The nearly two-decade-old requirement to conduct background checks of prospective gun buyers isn’t working as planned because many…

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Kevin Walker Named FBI’s Next Equal Employment Opportunity Officer

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Kevin W. Walker, the former acting deputy director and general counsel of the National Drug Intelligence Center, was named the FBI’s equal employment opportunity (EEO) officer, the FBI announced Thursday. Walker’s job entails overseeing discrimination complaints, the DOJ Mediator Corps, the reasonable accommodation process and the sign language interpreter program. Between 2006…

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Lawyer In Ex-Detroit Mayor Public Corruption Case Blasts Judge, Accuses Her Of Helping Prosecution

By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — In an unusual move, a lawyer in the trial of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick  very publicly ripped into the judge after court on Wednesday. Mike Rataj, one of three attorneys for Kilpatrick’s co-defendant Bobby Ferguson, blasted U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds during an interview with the media,…

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