By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not since the Fall of 2001 has anyone sent real anthrax through the mail. After the 2001 attacks, the Postal Service set up a system that is supposed to detect dangerous biological agents like anthrax that come through the mail processing centers. That being said, there are folks like Clifton Lamar…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The stats for our nation’s airport should be cause for major heartburn. USA Today reports that more than 25,000 security breaches — an average of about seven per day — have occurred at U.S. airports since November 2001. Citing newly released Department of Homeland Security documents, USA Today reported that more…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com High school buddies and colleagues aren’t the only ones who seem to have an interest in Facebook. Reuters reports that U.S. law enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, and usually the users doesn’t know. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two outspoken politicians are accusing the Justice Department of giving potential witnesses in a Congressional investigation into a controversial ATF program access to information to tailor their responses “to what they think the Committees already know.” The Justice Department on Tuesday afternoon said there was an explanation for what happened. Rep. Darrell…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a long delay, the White House on Monday finally gave the green light for a regulation that would require gun dealers along the Southwest border to report sales of two or more semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines to the same person within five days. The rule, which applies to dealers…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is apparently looking to throw a bone to the Republicans in Utah. The Dessert News reports that the White House is looking to nominate the Republican’s choice for U.S. Attorney in Utah. Some Dems aren’t happy. The paper reported that the White House is looking a David Barlow,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more news from the friendly skies. A 21-year-old Saudi Arabia man is facing charges for interfering with United Flight 944 from Chicago to Germany. Fox News reports that the FBI said that the unruly behavior of Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, aka Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, 21, of Riyadh,…
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