Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents at the northern border are taking a new approach to tightening security, the Associated Press reports. Instead of spending most of their time at border stations, agents are spreading out into communities and assisting local police. The idea is to work more closely with other law enforcement agencies to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former head of the FBI’s Boston office choked up Tuesday as he was fined $10,000 for violating an ethics charge, the Boston Globe reports. Kenneth Kaiser, a retired assistant director of the FBI, had pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement that spared him jail time. “I lost something I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As Homeland Security’s watchdog, Charles K. Edwards was tasked with exposing wrongdoing. That was until Tuesday, when officials said Edwards, the department’s inspector general, was transferred because of allegations that he abused his position, the Los Angeles Times reports. Among the accusations: He hired his wife, misused travel funds and tried to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Harvard University student who wasn’t prepared for his final exam decided to buy himself some time. On Monday, Eldo Kim, 20, emailed threats that claimed there were “bombs placed around campus” about a half hour before his test, NBC News reports, citing the FBI. Sure enough, the alarms rang at 9…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Senator offered Tuesday to travel to Iran if it would help locate former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in the country in 2007, NBC 3 News reports. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., may have a hard time finding information, though. The last images showing Levinson alive are from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The National Security Agency is likely violating the Constitution by gathering the dialing records of all phone calls in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon delivered a significant blow to the NSA and lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court battle. Leon’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama lauded new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson as “a strong leader” who will “play a leading role in our efforts to protect the homeland against terrorist attacks.” The statement follows Monday’s Senate confirmation of Johnson, a former general counsel at the Pentagon. The president’s full statement: “I am pleased the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents are joining an investigation into a suspicious Colorado fire over the weekend that was so hot that flattened the apartment building and melted cars parked across the street, the Denver Post reports. The 11 p.m. Saturday fire broke out in an apartment building that is under construction in Glendale, which…
