Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group is suing the FBI to force the release details of its contacts with American-Muslim groups that urged the the bureau to stop using certain counter-terrorism materials for agents that they deemed offensive, the Washington Examiner reports. At issue is a Feb. 8, 2012, meeting between Muslim organizations FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is endorsing a plan that would speed up the release dates for well-behaved prisoners in a plan aimed at saving on detention costs, NPR reports. Strapped for cash, the Justice Department is looking for ways to handle the overcrowded federal prison system that handles 218,000 inmates. Under the plan,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce an array of reforms in the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday as part of the most far-reaching consent decree of its kind, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. A monitor and federal judge will direct the mandated oversight spelled out in a 125-page agreement for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating human smuggling after a truck packed with illegal immigrants crashed in rural southern Texas, killing 17 and injuring nine, the Associated Press reports. Of the those killed, 11 were male and three female. At least two were children. They came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras,…
“Before, we couldn even talk about the beatification of children in the history of the church because the principle prevailed that they didn yet have the skills to exercise the heroic level of Christian virtues,” required as a first step Replica Hermes, Saraiva Martins said in an interview. The country was proclaimed a republic after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The NCAA wanted to send a message that protecting children is more important than Penn State football. But if the NCAA really meant it, it would have suspended play for at least a year. A $60 million fine essentially amounts to one year of revenue generated from the program. And no…
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in Miami Beach after a traffic stop Saturday, NBC 6 Miami reports. After talking to the driver of the car he pulled over, the agent was walking back to his car when his gun went off and shot him in the leg….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a potential link between an adult dating website and the man accused in the Aurora, Colo. massacre, the Washington Post reports. Authorities said they found an account on Adult Friend Finder, called Classicjimbo, that resembles the shooter, James Holmes. On the account on the site, which is for…
