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Column: TSA Makes 4-Year-Old Boy Take Off Leg Braces to Pass Through Security
By Daniel Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist PHILADELPHIA — Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn’t allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces? Unfortunately,…
Ex-Special Prosecutor Ken Starr Named President of Baylor Univ.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who toiled in the eye of the political hurricane during the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked Washington, will become the new president of Baylor University in Texas, the Associated Press reported. Starr has been dean of Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, Calif. The AP…
A New Mob Bus Tour in N.Y. That Will Include Some Oldies But Badies
To the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office, the characters were voices on wiretaps or investigative files or criminal case numbers. To the public, they still represent a slice of fascination. BY Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER That Starbucks over there? Used to be the scene of one of the city’s most notorious mob hits….
DEA Team Leader Shot and Wounded in Afghanistan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A veteran DEA agent was shot multiple times and wounded in Afghanistan on Sunday while on a mission, according to people familiar with the incident. The veteran agent, who was a team leader of the DEA FAST Team (Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team) was shot and wounded in Marjeh,…
Atty. Gen. Hones Political Ear
Eric Holder is struggling with a typical dilemma in Washington: He’s a nice guy and he’s trying to stay a nice, decent guy while dealing with all the politics. The Obama administration wants to have an independent Justice Department, unlike the one run by Alberto Gonzales. But the administration doesn’t want to put up a…
ATF-Postal Had Investigated Ala. Biology Prof in 1993 Mail Bombing to Harvard Med Prof
Prof. Amy Bishop/university photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to think of a biology teacher as a dangerous person. Boring? Long winded? Possibly. But dangerous? Well, not only did biology professor Amy Bishop allegedly kill three colleagues and wound three more in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday,…
Ex-FBI Agent Says Shooting Detroit Imam 20 Times Was Justified
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells the Detroit News that he thinks agents acted appropriately when they fatally shot an imam 20 times during an October raid in Dearborn, Mi, after the imam shot and killed an FBI dog. “Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly…
Christmas Day Bomber Read Rights 9 Hours — Not 50 Minutes– After His Arrest, Administration Says
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The political bickering and posturing over the questioning of the Christmas Day bomber continued in true Washington fashion Sunday. Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, who some may view as being on a campaign to prop up or save his legacy, went on ABC and said the administration should have considered…