Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few people know al Qaeda and its former leader Osama Bin Laden quite like Jack Cloonan. Radio host Steve Leser interviewed Cloonan, the senior case agent in the FBI Bin Laden Squad, on Blog Talk Radio. Five years before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Cloonan was working on intelligence about the terrorist…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge put an end to Attorney General Eric Holder’s request to appeal his contempt case following the bungled gun-running Operation Fast and Furious, Politico reports. Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson potentially puts Holder on the hot seat. The ruling means the Justice Department likely will…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol is experiencing a sharp increase in apprehensions at the New Mexico border, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The Border Patrol took into custody nearly 8,000 people for illegally crossing the border in fiscal 2013 – compared to about 5,700 in fiscal 2012. Although the New Mexico numbers were on the rise, Texas…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Maryland official hope they soon land the new FBI headquarters, saying the site is perfectly located, News4 reports. The site at Greenbelt has quick access to Metro and the Beltway, and it has about 80 acres to develop. The FBI has said it requires about 50 acres for a new headquarters. “We…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — It’s been about a decade since the “Detroit Sleeper Cell” case imploded and ended up being a big embarrassment to the Justice Department and the FBI. You might recall, shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, four men were charged in Detroit with operating a sleeper cell that was plotting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com You’ve probably heard of the millions of Americans who say they’ve lost their insurance plan because of the Affordable Care Act requirements. Among those unlucky souls is a former Secret Service agent, the Washington Times reports. Dan Bongino, who was a Secret Service agent for 12 years under the Clinton and Obama…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol has an “alarming” and “detrimental” alcohol problem among its agents, according to an internal memo from the agency’s chief, ABC News 10 reports. “The Border Patrol is averaging almost two alcohol-related arrests per week,” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher wrote in the memo. “This continued level and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A mysterious hacking group is breaching federal computer systems and gaining access to thousands of people’s personal information, Fox News reports. The FBI issued warnings to federal agencies that the hackers, who are associated with Anonymous, may becoming more widespread. So far, the agencies affected were the U.S. Army, Department of Energy…
