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I’ve just read about the gunning down of 13-year-old eight grade boy, Andy Lopez, by a deputy sheriffs in California, He was not threatening anyone. The deputies saw him walking down the street carrying what to the cops looked like an AK-47 but was actually a replica gun. They pulled their car up behind him, got out…

In my book “Don’t Embarrass The Family” I made a handful of suggestions for changes in the FBI hoping it would escape the fetters placed on it during the 48 year reign of J. Edgar Hoover. One, perhaps the major one, was that the FBI should record all interrogation it conducts of suspects or other people who…

The Patriot Ledger has a story about Daniel Rebello. I read it with interest and followed it up by going to other newspapers. What piqued my interest was the Ledger stating: “He’ll be back in Quincy court Nov. 21, and he told Coven that he’ll represent himself. “I have that right,” Rebello said.” When I read that…

It was five months ago today that at least five and upwards of eight to ten law enforcement officers crowded into the Orlando apartment of Ibragim Todashev who was scheduled to leave the country the next day to return to his homeland to question him about his relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and also about the…

Whitey will leave our fair state in less than a month spending Thanksgiving in a cell somewhere in America. I’m sure his meal will be reminiscent of one I had when I found myself and two other Marine officers stranded one Thanksgiving at the Iwakuni Air Station in Japan back in the ’60s with $1.65 among the…

I just finished reading Kenneth Ackerman’s book Young J. Edgar.  He gives a great insight into the person who became the director of the FBI. Hoover worked all his life in government positions in the Justice Department. He started as a young lawyer and came to newsworthy prominence during the period of time in America which…