By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The wife and suspected son of the leader of the Islamic State have been arrested in Lebanon, the USA Today reports. Lebanon officials confirmed the wife and son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were detained bu t didn’t provide more details as of Tuesday morning. The Lebanese daily As-Safir broke the news…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com By most accounts, David Petraeus is on the rise after losing his job in the wake of an extramarital affair that forced him to resign as director of the CIA. But Bloomberg reports that Petraeus, who has secured a job at the private equity firm KKR, is still under investigation by…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Serious questions have been raised about the FBI’s evidence-handling controls that could be used by defense attorneys to seek reversals on convictions, The Washington Times reports. The problem: The FBI doesn’t have video cameras in some of its evidence rooms, including the Washington field office. The issue was raised by 13…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Speaking at a church where Martin Luther King once preached, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that he soon will be unveiling stringent new protocols for reducing profiling by federal law enforcement, Time reports. The new protocols would represent the first change to racial profiling guidelines on the federal level in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has a tough task ahead – defending President Obama’s executive order on immigration to combative Republicans. Fox News reports that Johnson is set to appear today before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the executive actions. “The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people…
