Our World Since 9/11: Mall of America Visitors Unknowingly End Up in Counterterrorism Reports

 Listen to NPR Radio Story   By G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting | Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting | Daniel Zwerdling, NPR BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the spooky world of homeland security. As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of…

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DEA Spokesman David Ausiello Named Assist. Director for Communication at Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Public Affairs Specialist David Ausiello is making a switch. Ausiello has been named Assistant Director for Communication and Law Enforcement Coordination at the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys. “Staying in the DOJ family…but moving up, over, and out,” Ausiello said in an email to members of the media on…

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Justice Department Scorns Puerto Rico Police Dept. — the Nation’s Second Largest

   By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is coming down hard on the Puerto Rico Police Department — the nation’s second largest —  accusing it of  “profound” and “longstanding” civil rights violations and illegal practices, reports the New York Times. The Puerto Rico Police Department is “using force, including deadly force, when no force…

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Atty. Gen. Holder Insists Upper Levels of Justice Dept. Didn’t Know About Fast and Furious

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. is sticking to his guns, insisting “the upper levels of the Justice Department” were unaware of the flawed and controversial ATF gun program “Operation Fast and Furious.” “The notion that somehow or other this reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that,…

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