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LA Times Editorial: New Guildelines for Miranda Rights “Defensible”
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page There was an uproar when it was revealed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, was read his Miranda rights. The hysterical reaction obscured a real dilemma for law enforcement: how to obtain what could be vital information about terrorist plots without denying suspects their legal…
Head of FBI’s Roanoke Office to Work For Va. Tech
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kevin Foust, head of the Roanoke, Va. FBI office, is a little nervous. After a quarter century with the FBI, Foust, 50, is leaving to become deputy chief of Virginia Tech’s police department, according to the Roanoke Times. His $80,000 a year job will be to assess security for the university…
Justice Dept.’s Public Integrity Section Could Be Screwing Up Another Public Corruption Case in Ala.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which blew the case against Sen. Ted Stevens, may be screwing up a big public corruption case in Montgomery, Ala. Both cases involve allegations of withholding evidence from the defense. The Associated Press reports that an angry U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel Jr. is fed…
Six Decades Later, FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List Still Tough to Crack
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
A Big Goof By the Feds Resulted in Mobster’s Murder, Gang Land News Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A goof by federal law enforcement resulted in the murder of Genovese family mobster Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno in 2003, Gang Land News reports. The website on the Mafia reported that a federal probation officer mentioned in a pre-sentence report to a Massachusetts federal judge that Bruno, who ran the Springfield,…
Washington Post Editorial: The Not-So Honorable Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
D.C.’s former Mayor Marion Barry, currently a city council member, has had his share of brushes with federal law enforcement. As you recall in 1990 he was busted in an FBI sting smoking crack in a D.C. hotel room. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges relating to failure to file and pay taxes….
ATF Still Hasn’t Turned Over Info to Congressional Committee; Battle Heats Up
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The battle between Capitol Hill and ATF seems to be heating up. ATF failed to meet the Wednesday deadline to turn over requested information about a controversial gun-walking operation to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Becca Watkins, a spokeswoman for the committee, told ticklethewire.com Friday morning…
Ex-ATF Offcial Thinks Funds Could Get Cut or ATF Could Be Eliminated if it Doesn’t Cooperate With Congressional Inquiries
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In the ever too eager climate to slash budgets, ex-ATF official Bernie La Forest thinks ATF could face some seriousĀ cuts — and even elimination — if it doesn’t start cooperating with Congress and give answers about a controversial gun program known as “Operation Fast and Furious.” “This refusal…