People inside the department complained of low morale and too much politics. Interestingly, it’s not a very long time to stick around. Then again, better to go now if it’s not working out instead of dragging it out and creating more problems. By Joe Palazzolo Main Justice WASHINGTON — After less than a year as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Secret Service Mark Sullivan arrived at a Congressional hearing on Thursday to not only deliver a mea culpa for the lapse in security at the White House during a state dinner, but to announce that three uniformed U.S. Secret Service officers have been put on leave. “Established protocols…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities, acting on info from U.S. federal investigators, shut down a yet to be completed underground tunnel on Wednesday that originated in Tijuana, Mexico and extended 860 feet into San Diego. The tunnel, measuring just under 1000 feet in length and 90 to 100 feet in depth, had lighting, ventilation…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The leader of the violent Mexican drug cartel, accused of importing more than 200 tons of cocaine into the U.S., got hit with a 27-year sentence on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Gilberto Salinas Doria, leader of the Juarez Cartel, pleaded guilty in 2008 to narcotics conspiracy charges for…
This isn’t exactly new, but maybe it’s important to say publicly from time to time to remind the American people that they can’t become complacent about the potential threats of terrorism. By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Gotti Jr. had a little different childhood than most. On Wednesday, the man who just escaped conviction for the fourth time when a judge declared a mistrial in his racketeering case, explained why he joined the mob. Newsday’s Sophia Chang reports in an interview with Gotti, 45, that he recalled…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The wife of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson marked the 1,000th day of her husband’s disappearance in Iran Thursday by talking about the anguish and pleading for help from the Iranian government to find out about his whereabouts. “Today, Thursday, December 3rd, marks the 1,000th day since my husband,…
