By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama is faced with a significant challenge and opportunity. The top three jobs at the Justice Department will soon be vacant, and just four of Obama’s 11 choices for assistant attorney generals have been confirmed, CBS News reports. The vacancies leave a power vacuum at an agency that has been…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com So how do you capture a cop-killing survivalist who has managed to elude police in Pennsylvania for 42 days? Not many people would know more than Gregg O. McCrary, a retired criminal profiler for the FBI who spoke to the Scranton Times-Tribune in a report published Friday. “He may be in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Raiding a lingerie shop may seem like an odd task for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, but it’s a part of their responsibilities. News of the underwear seizures raised some questions about the involvement of ICE. So what prompted the raid? IJReview reports that the panties included a trademarked logo: The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department outlined new changes that will make it easier for agents and employees of the FBI to blow the whistle on misconduct within the bureau, the Wall Street Journal reports. The idea is to ensure complaints are handled swiftly and fairly. President Obama directed the rule change in 2012…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The discovery that three teenage girls were trying to join the Islamic State in Syria has raised plenty of questions. Among them: How did they get to Europe without anyone noticing and what prompted the girls, ages 16, 16 and 17, to make the trip? The Associated Press reports that a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s enormous criminal database includes records of about one out of every three American adults, Gizmodo reports. The FBI has criminal records on more than 77.7 million Americans, and the bureau is adding between 10,000 and 12,000 new people a day. The arrest records can be problematic because they don’t…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department accused some Ferguson officials of leaking information to the media in an effort to support Officer Darren Wilson, the Los Angeles Times reports. In recent days, details of the investigation have appeared in local and national news coverage at a time when a grand jury decision is imminent…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Yet another man has jumped the White House fence. This time an unarmed man, Dominic Adesanya, hopped the fence around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Huffington Post reports. The 23-year-old man was tackled by Secret Service dogs. He was the seventh White House fence jumped this year. Other Stories of Interest County…
