February 25th, 2010
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- FLEOA Urges President to Authorize All LEOs to Carry Firearms Aboard Aircrafts
- Senate Committee to Hold Hearing Examining Lessons of the Christmas Day Attack
- ODNI Offers Summer Seminar for Students Interested in Intelligence Community Careers
- The Takedown - Accused Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited from Mexico to U.S. to Face Charges
- Movers & Shakers - Letitia A. Long to Be First Woman to Head Major Intelligence Agency
- Case Law Update - Supreme Court Holds That Extent of Injury Not Sole Deciding Factor in Excessive Force Claim
News Round Up
FLEOA Urges President to Authorize All LEOs to Carry Firearms Aboard Aircrafts
Earlier this month, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) National President Jon Adler asked President Obama to consider issuing an Executive Order authorizing all law enforcement officers, active and retired, and certified by the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), to carry firearms aboard aircraft on all domestic flights. The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 (PL-108-277) authorize ...
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Senate Committee to Hold Hearing Examining Lessons of the Christmas Day Attack
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will hold a hearing to examine "The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack: Watchlisting and Pre-Screening." The witnesses scheduled to appear before the Committee are: Russell E. Travers, Deputy Director, Information Sharing and Knowledge Development, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.Timo ...
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ODNI Offers Summer Seminar for Students Interested in Intelligence Community Careers
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has announced that it will offer approximately 40 highly-motivated graduate students and college seniors an opportunity to study with currently serving intelligence analysts and other experts. The National Security Analysis & Intelligence Summer Seminar, a reprise of the first such program the ODNI held last summer, is planned for this summer from July 11th t ...
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The Takedown - Accused Mexican Drug Kingpin Extradited from Mexico to U.S. to Face Charges
An allegedly high-ranking leader of one of Mexico's largest drug cartels, whose father allegedly heads a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and is among Mexico's most powerful drug kingpins, was extradited last Thursday from Mexico to face federal narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges in the United States. Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla is believed to be one of the most significant Mexican drug defendants extradited from ...
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Movers & Shakers - Letitia A. Long to Be First Woman to Head Major Intelligence Agency
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, with the concurrence of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, announced that Letitia A. Long will be the next director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Long will be the first woman to head a major intelligence agency. In making the announcement, Blair said that Long's historic appointment reflects her 32 years of exceptional government ser ...
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Case Law Update - Supreme Court Holds That Extent of Injury Not Sole Deciding Factor in Excessive Force Claim
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's decision where the lower court primarily focused on de minimis injury rather than the amount of force used. This case involves the petitioner, James Wilkins, a North Carolina state prisoner, who filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging that corrections officers had used excessive force in violation of the Eighth Amen ...
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