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The new mayor of New Orleans asked the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday to send a team to help overhaul the city s corruption-plagued police department, which already is the subject of several federal investigations.Mayor Mitch Landrieu reque
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For nearly a decade now, 10 Predator B drones have been zipping around our nations borders at $12,000 an hour under the pretense of securing our borders. Except that, according to a scathing report released earlier today by Homeland Security, not only do these drones cost five times as much as advertised, but they ;re doing an all around shitty job, to boot. Part of the problem, though, is the fact that Customs and Border Protection CBP simply doesn ;t have the manpower necessary to actually put all the drones to use. While each drone was su
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