By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For more than a year, former president George H.W. Bush’s home had a broken alarm system and Secret Service failed to fix it, the Washington Post reports. Although the alarm system monitors the property and the house, the agency rejected requests to replace it since 2010, according to an inspector general…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent said in a deposition that Paula Broadwell had regular access to CIA Director David Petraeus’ email that may have extended beyond the launch of an FBI investigation a month before the 2012 presidential election, Politico.com reports. Transcripts of the deposition show the CIA director was asked twice to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, the first black woman to take the helm, plans to improve the Justice Department’s reputation with police after her predecessor was criticized for too quickly and harshly criticizing officers over lethal force. Aides to Lynch told the New York Times that Lynch hopes to boost…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Following a torrent of criticism over his column last week about the Holocaust, FBI Director James Comey emphasized that he did not mean to suggest that Poland was responsible for the genocide of Jews, NBC News reports. His comments come after Poland’s ambassador called the remarks “unacceptable.” Even the U.S. ambassador…
By The Daily Iowan Editorial Board The DEA chief, Michele Leonhart, is stepping down amid heated congressional hearings into her agency’s scandals involving sex parties and compromised information leaked to Colombian drug lords. An internal report documented that prostitutes, sex parties, and undercover apartments were paid for by government money from 2001 to 2005 in…
