November 2009
Commentary: Author of Secret Service Book Says White House Breach a Disgrace
Ronald Kessler Newsmax.com The fact that party crashers were allowed into a White House State Dinner without being on the guest list is emblematic of the Secret Service’s corner cutting detailed in my book, “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.” It’s…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Feds and Ruby Ridge
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNC8l2VVL0U httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEARRev3IPg httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCqgX9dDTU
Controversy Stirring Over Who Will Speak for 9/11 Terror Trial Defendants
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A controversy has emerged over who will speak for 9/11 defendants in the controversial New York trial. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that “New York defense lawyer Scott Fenstermaker has made big headlines in recent days after telling The New York Times that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four accused 9/11 co-conspirators…
FBI Probing Las Vegas Hospital for Leaking Info to Ambulance Chasing Attorneys
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ambulance chasers beware. The FBI is probing allegations that someone at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas released confidential information about traffic accident victims to personal injury attorneys hunting for new clients, Courthouse News Service reports. “Our main concern right now is to conduct a thorough and professional investigation for…
Secret Service Has Some Explaining to do: Couple Crash White House Dinner
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAXrUMNuas httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWffjaZCZc4
Plenty People Still Bring Guns to Airports — They Often Say They Forgot
By Allan Lengel For Sphere.com (A New AOL New Site) WASHINGTON — A lot of things became off-limits at airports after Sept. 11, 2001, but a surprising number of passengers still get caught with a particularly big no-no: firearms. The Transportation Security Administration says that so far this year 793 firearms have been discovered at…
Happy Thanksgiving from ticklethewire.com
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” Alphonse Karr “You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson