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Drug Seizures Double Since Venezuela Kicked Out the DEA in 2005
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Venezuelan authorities are seizing far more drugs every year since the government broke ties with the DEA in 2005, the Venezuelan Analysis reports. Since 2005, the Venezuelan government has seized 462 tons of illegal drugs – or twice the amount seized under a partnership with the country in the seven years prior…
Washington Post: Ex-FBI Agent Who Disappeared in Iran Was on Rogue Mission for CIA
By Adam Goldman Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — An American man who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency. Bob Levinson, an ex-FBI agent, traveled to the…
FBI Agents Association Throws Weight Behind Bipartisan Spending Plan
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to avoid further cutbacks, the FBI Agents Association is showing its support for a bipartisan spending plan that would avoid more than $700 million in additional sequestration reductions, NPR reports. The plan, while not ideal for the cash-strapped agency, was announced Tuesday by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democratic…
Son Learns His Long-Lost Mom Likely Was Killed by Serial Killer Israel Keyes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Feldman lost track of his mother about five years ago. The New Jersey mom had chronic drug problems, and her son believed she was in a witness protection program. Then the FBI told him recently that his mother likely was yet another victim of serial killer Israel Keyes, who is…
J. Edgar Hoover Delivered Order to Ignore Democrat After His Critical Comments
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t known for messing around. When U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks criticized the FBI director during a background interview for a potential judicial nominee in 1958, Hoover laid down the law – his version of it. “He is to be ignored,” Hoover wrote of the Texas Democrat in a June…
Alejandro Mayorkas Closer to Winning Confirmation for No. 2 Job at Homeland Security
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s pick for the No. 2 job at the Department of Homeland Security advanced to the next stage after getting approval from a Senate panel, the Los Angeles Times reports. Now Alejandro Mayorkas, head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, needs confirmation from a majority of the Senate. Republicans have objected…
ICE Employee Fired Over Website That Warned of Impending Race War
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ICE officer who operates a website that warns of an impending race war has been fired, the Associated Press reports. Ayo Kimathi, who wrote about an “unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race,” had been on paid administrative leave for four months. As an acquisitions officer, Kimathi, who is black, handled…
The Game Remains the Same
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — Over the last half-decade or so, City Paper has done in-depth reporting about how Baltimore’s drug game is tied to heroin arriving from Africa, gangsters who double as gang interventionists, the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) gang’s broad reach in prisons and the streets, and legendary old felons getting…