Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What started as a prank call ended with two frightened teens and a visit by the Secret Service. The teens, ages 13 and 14, acknowledged they made a threat to President Obama but had no intention of harming anyone, King 5 reports. No federal charges are planned, the Secret Service said….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A monthlong trial for a federal agent accused of murder in Hawaii ended in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict, ABC News reports. State Department Special Agent Christopher Deedy is headed home to Virginia, but he most likely will face another trial, ABC News wrote. “Mr. Deedy…
By Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich WASHINGTON –– When Sen. John McCain spoke during an Armed Services Committee hearing last year on security issues in the Western Hemisphere, he relayed a stark warning about the spread of Mexican drug cartels in the United States. “The cartels,” the Arizona Republican said, “now maintain a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Since taking the helm at the FBI just a week before the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks, Robert Mueller has managed to avoid the limelight. But now that he’s retiring after 12 years with the bureau, the FBI director is opening up about his service. Most recently, NPR reports, the decorated former…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As an Air Force captain, Adam J. Pudenz oversaw contracts to provide boots to Afghan soldiers. Now Pudenz earns $40,000-a-month working for the company that was selling the boots, ABC News reports. The FBI accuses Carroll, an Iowa resident of violating a ban on representing companies that he oversees when he took…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee who was exposed for hosting a racist website that advocates for a race war was placed on paid administrative leave while the agency investigates, the Huffington Post reports on Monday. Ayo Kimathi, acquisitions officer for ICE, forecasts on his site, War on the Horizon, forecasted an “unavoidable, inevitable…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Michelle Colby was a child, she wanted nothing more than to become a veterinarian, The Washington Post reports. She wended her way through school and studied at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Still, she wanted more and became the agriculture defense branch chief for the Department of Homeland Security’s…
