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ATF Investigates Alleged Affair Between Agent, Prosecutor During Storefront Investigations

By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent and a prosecutor had a secret affair while working together on controversial storefront operations in Georgia and are under investigation following allegations they illegally helped in informant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.  The storefront investigations were the subject of intense scrutiny following alarming reports by the Journal Sentinel…

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Records: FBI Spied on Numerous African American Authors, Scholars for Decades

By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and its notoriously paranoid director J. Edgar Hoover spied on prominent African American writers for decades, monitoring their activities and critiquing their work. The Guardian reports that newly declassified documents from the FBI show extensive surveillance of black writers and scholars, including Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Claude McKay….

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