By Sari Horwitz The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Drug Enforcement Administration agents allegedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by local drug cartels overseas over a period of several years, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s watchdog. The report does not specify the country where the parties occurred, but a law…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 9/11 Review Commission credited the FBI for thwarting terrorist attacks but said the bureau needs to improve intelligence and hire more linguists, according to a report released Wednesday, the New York Times reports. While the commission applauded the FBI’s ability to prevent terrorism, the report said the bureau lags “behind…
By The Detroit News Editorial Board If Americans had no civil liberties, it would be a snap to keep the country safe and secure. Police states are highly effective at dissuading criminal activity and rooting out threats. But as inconvenient as it often is for law enforcement, we do have a Bill of Rights that…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Times are tense at the Secret Service. The Business Insider reports that “the normally tight-lipped agency is now consumed by an intense, high-level guessing game over who was motivated to leak information to the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig,” who first published accounts of misconduct at the agency. Secret Service officials are…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI drone program isn’t very far-reaching. According to a newly released report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General, the FBI has 17 working drones and just two pilots, The Verge reports. The report found that the drones operate out of one location, making it difficult to use the flying cameras…
Jerry Capeci is a former New York Daily News reporter and mob expert. Gang Land News is a paid subscription site. This article is published with permission. By Jerry Capeci Gang Land News A mob associate who ran the Bada Bing — the Lodi, New Jersey strip club that served as headquarters for fictional…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s crime statistics on mass shootings are “politically biased” to make the incidents appear more common and deadly than they actually are, according to a criminologist. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News that the information is misleading and not substantiated by facts. “The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge has ordered the FBI to release documents detailing its surveillance of Muslims and recruiting efforts in Northern California, The San Francisco Gate reports. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of San Francisco said the FBI must disclose previously redacted or omitted information about the programs used to conduct surveillance of…
