AG Holder: ATF’s Use of People with Mental Disabilities in Stings ‘Is Crazy’

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at the ATF’s use and treatment of people with mental disabilities in undercover stings, saying he is “greatly troubled” by the information, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “The notion that you would use mentally unstable people, you would tattoo them, that you would do ridiculous…

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Senate Confirms 2 Key Nominees for Top-Level Homeland Security Posts

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Senate confirmed two key nomination on Monday – Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Frank Taylor to be DHS undersecretary for intelligence and analysis and Dr. Reggie Brothers to Homeland Security’s under secretary for Science and Technology, HSToday.us reports. Brothers led oversight of the Department of Defense’s cyber portfolio as the former deputy…

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