By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Airport security never fails to amaze. Fox 5 News reports that the FBI is investigating how a stun gun made it onto a Boston to Newark flight on Friday. The station reports that a cleaning crew found a striker 1800 stun gun inside the back pocked of a seat on Jet…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration, tasked with protecting the nation’s airports, can’t win. The latest: An African-American woman is accusing TSA of racial profiling after her poofy hair was searched, The Hill newspaper reported. The paper reported that Laura Adiele told MSNBC on Friday that agents at Seattle’s Sea-Tec Airport told her…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Three Somalian men charged with murdering four Americans aboard the Quest ship in February near Somalia, could face the death penalty if convicted in Virginia Authorities on Friday announced a superseding indictment in Norfolk, Va. Of the 26 counts, 22 are death penalty eligible. “Today’s superseding indictment charges three men from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-First Lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at age 93, had fans in the Secret Service. Ex-Secret Service agent Mike Shannon, who protected the Fords, and showed up Saturday at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids to pay respect, told WOOD-TV that Betty Ford was like “a mother” to…
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Anonymous Steals Info From FBI Contractor (CBR Security) Gut Instinct Gets New Meaning for TSA (Boston Herald) FBI Says Loan Scams a Growing Problem (Fox) TSA’s Forced Indignities Don’t Make Us Safer (Bloomberg) ATF Tampa Division Walked Guns to Honduras (Fox)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the website Gang Land News, offers nothing but high praise in an article this week about FBI agent David Sebastiani, who went undercover to bring down some Philly mobsters. Capeci wrote that Sebastiani, who works out the New York division and is a certified…
Update By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com William Newell, who headed ATF’s Phoenix Division during the controversial operation dubbed Fast and Furious, won’t be going to Mexico as ATF’s attache after all. The agency has decided to to nix that assignment before he even heads south. Instead, he’s been named special assistant to the ATF Assistant Director…
