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Justice Dept. Showing Face in Assessment of New Orleans Police Dept.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is starting to show its face in the New Orleans police department as part of a wide-scale assessment of the troubled police force. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that on Friday “a handful of representatives from the Department of Justice’s Special Litigation Section sat silently, taking in the…
FBI Won’t Let Muslim American Fly Home From Middle East
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it the sign of the times. The FBI won’t let 26-year-old Muslim American Yahya Wehelie fly home to Virginia from the Middle East, the New York Times reports. Wehelie spent 18 months in Yemen. In May, he was heading home to Virginia and was changing planes in Cairo when the…
Joseph Kennedy Touted J. Edgar Hoover for President
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON— J. Edgar Hoover for president? Well, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, apparently thought it was a good idea in the 1950s, according to an essay Hoover wrote that was included in the newly released FBI files on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. In a…
ATF Agents Shoot and Kill Motorcycle Gang Member in Shoot Out in Maine
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF agents rounding up more than two dozen members of the American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang in a seven-state sweep, killed one of the members Tuesday in a shoot out just south of Portland, Me., authorities said. Michael Campbell, a spokesman for ATF in Washington, said agents went to…
At Least 10 Mexican Cops Killed and Several Others Wounded
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another reminder of the lawlessness in Mexico reared its ugly head Monday when at least 10 federal police officers were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an ambush in an area a major drug organization calls home, the Los Angeles Times reported. The paper reported that the attacks took…
Man Says FBI Apologized After Raiding Home in Connection with Times Square Car Bomb Probe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has apologized to a New York man whose Long Island home was raided in connection to the Times Square car bomb incident, the man said, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that Mohammad Iqbal said agents returned his Pakistani passport and other items seized during a raid at…
White Powder Letters Sent to FBI, U.S. Atty and IRS Offices Out West
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The old white powder in the envelope trick continues to scare people and disrupt work places even though none have ever proved dangerous since the 2001 attacks that killed five people and sickened 17. The latest: White powder envelopes, that were later found to be harmless, were discovered Monday in eight…
Retired Texas Border Patrol Agent Says Agents Have Been Denied Service in Restaurants in El Paso
By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com Retired Border Patrol agent and field operations supervisor John Hubert tells the El Paso Times that it’s not always easy being an agent in El Paso. “I learned early on that if you’re a Border Patrol agent in El Paso… basically you’re an object of scorn to about 75 percent of…