Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than a dozen Pulitzer Prize winners urged the Justice Department on Monday to stop trying to force New York Times reporter and author James Risen to identify a confidential source, the US News reports. Risen has said he’d go to jail before testifying at the trial of former CIA employee Jeffrey…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA forked over $854,460 to an Amtrak secretary for confidential information the agency should have gotten for free, according to an internal investigation. The DEA paid the employee to be an informant despite the agency’s right to obtain the information at no cost as part of a joint drug enforcement task…
The FBI has launched a civil rights investigation to determine what prompted a police officer to shoot an unarmed blacked teenager in a St. Louis suburb on Saturday afternoon. The New York Times reports the inquiry into Michael Brown’s death came on the third day of protests. Ferguson, a city of 21,000 residents, has a history…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former sketch artist for the FBI has written a tell-all book about his 32 years working with the bureau, the New York Post reports. Gene O’Donnell, who is shopping his book “Faces of Crime: Memoirs of an FBI Forensic Artist,” said he’s had a lot of bizarre experiences at the bureau,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service agents are used to the jumpers – the people who hop over the White House fence. But Thursday night was different when a toddler slipped through the gate in site of arms officers trained to protect the president, the Associated Press reports. His discipline? Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil unrest over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police turned into looting and vandalism Sunday evening as investigators try to piece together what happened. The Associated Press reports that the St. Louis County chapter of the NAACCP is urging the FBI to take over the case of 18-year-old Michael…
By John Stossel Pittsburgh Tribune-Review If I drive across a U.S. border, I expect to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. But imagine driving to the grocery store, or Mom’s house, well inside America, and being stopped by the Border Patrol. Many Americans don’t have to imagine it — it’s how they live. Even as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Protesters crawled under a Border Patrol vehicle to stop agents from transporting a driver who was taken into custody for being in the U.S. without documentation, the Tuscon News Now reports. The incident happened at 2:45 p.m. when Tucson police pulled over a driver for making an improper turn. Saying the driver…
