Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas Gov. Rick Perry is taking matters into his own hands and is reportedly planning to dispatch the Texas National Guard to the U.S. border to crack down on Central American immigrants, the Washington Post reports. Perry plans to mobilize about 1,000 guardsman to the Rio Grand Valley. “I won’t stand idly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.” The book by Ronald Kessler claims…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at the head of a Boy Scout and threatened to arrest him for snapping a picture of an agent near the Canadian border, KCCI reports. The Iowa Boy Scout troop was on a three-week trip to Alaska when the incident happened, Troop 111 leader Jim…
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif) wrote this column for the San Diego Union-Tribune. By Darrell Issa In May 2013, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation into efforts of an Internal Revenue Service division, which under the supervision of former Director Lois Lerner, systematically selected organizations with conservative sounding names for delay and enhanced scrutiny….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Peter Edge, who became head of Homeland Security Investigations for ICE in May, began his law enforcement career began chasing crack cocaine dealers in Newark, NJ.com wrote in a feature about Edge. “He had a very calm demeanor,” said Robert Laurino, who worked with Edge in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. “Nothing…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Is Mahmoud Bazzi, 71, a Lebanese native who operates an ice cream truck in Dearborn, a war criminal? Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press headed to Ireland for a detailed report on the whole ordeal. Schaefer reports that folks in Dublin say Bazzi was responsible for the murder in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new documentary, “The Newburgh Sting,” chronicles the story of four New York men who were snared by the FBI in a terrorism scheme, the New York Daily News reports. The film, which airs today on HBO, tells the story of four Muslim converts who joined an FBI-fabricated plot to bomb synagogues…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating two scams that target some of the families of the tens of thousands of Central American children who have been captured recently trying to sneak into the U.S., Al Jazeera America reports. The telephone scams involve asking families for money for phony travel costs. “One fraud scheme involved…
