By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Here’s a quiz: Which crime is more likely to get you shot to death? A) Scaling the fence outside the White House, with a knife; B) Jaywalking in Ferguson, Mo., unarmed. The answer, of course, is B, at least if you’re a black man. And it’s not just in Ferguson….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a 19-year-old man at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport as he was trying to leave the country to join Islamic State, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was boarding a plane to Vienna, where he was going to catch a flight to Istansbul, according to the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas Tech University is trying to get to the bottom of racist photos that allegedly show members of a sorority preparing for a “Border Patrol” party with two women posing as immigrants with sombreros and ponchos, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The photos depict two women dressed as police officers “arresting”…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has a new special agent in charge of the Jackson Division. MS News Now reports that FBI Director James B. Comey named to the post Donald Alway, who began his career with the FBI in 1996 when he was first assigned to investigate drug violations in the Los Angeles…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to address low morale and security blunders at the Secret Service, some congressional watchdogs are proposing to limit the agency’s role of protecting the president, Time reports. Perhaps most important, the proposal includes removing Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security, which has struggled as a giant bureaucracy. “Long-term,…
By David Horsey The Baltimore Sun Secret Service agents should go to the movies more often. At least since the 1996 sci-fi film, “Independence Day,” in which an alien spaceship the size of Los Angeles incinerates the White House, attacks on the lovely old executive mansion have been a recurring cinematic theme. Last year, two…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said he knows the identities of roughly a dozen Americans fighting alongside terrorists in Syria, Bloomberg reports. Comey said the bureau is prepared to track the U.S. citizens if they return. “Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport’s revoked, is entitled to come back,” Comey said in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal appeals court is expected to decide soon whether the FBI’s “national security letters” are constitutional, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The letters are a demand for customer information in terrorism-related cases, allowing the FBI to obtain information without a warrant. San Francisco U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled…
