Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura A. Bucheit, who served as a special assistant to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, has been named special agent in charge of the agency’s Las Vegas Division, the Las-Vegas Review-Journal reports. Bucheit’s career with the FBI began in 1996 at the Baltimore Division, where she investigated terrorism and other serious…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes the diplomatic nightmare surrounding NSA leaker Edward Snowden is soon over. The USA Today reports that Putin wants Snowden to leave the country at the “earliest opportunity.” “As soon as there is an opportunity for him to move elsewhere, I hope he will do that….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top dog of the killer Zetas drug cartel in Mexico was captured, Tracy Wilkinson of the LA Times reports. The Times reports that Mexican naval special forces seized Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, in Nuevo Laredo, a border city across from Laredo, Texas, in the state of Tamaulipas. She…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama soon will have to replace Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after she announced Friday that she’s resigning to head the University of California system, the Washington Post reports. Napolitano plans to resign in September, which gives Obama a little more than a month to find a replacement. The White…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Add environmentalists to the groups of people opposing the growth of the Border Patrol. The inundation of 20,000 agents could irrevocably damage the Southern Arizona’s deserts and wildlife, according to the Siera Club Borderlands, which has a Tucson office. Border Patrol is not subject to environmental laws along the international border, creating…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA Leaker Edward Snowden has information that could cause more damage to the U.S. than “anyone else has ever had in the history” of the country, according to the Guardian journalist who reported about the widespread surveillance. Columnist Glenn Greenwald said the U.S. should be careful. “But that’s not his goal,” Greenwald…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The demolition of the Hoover Building would create $28 million in additional tax revenue for Washington D.C. and provide much needed aesthetic relief for people who have to see the hulking building every day, the Washington Post wrote in an editorial today. The move to another building also makes sense regionally, the…
