Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s not often that a TSA officer dies in the line of duty. In fact, TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez, 39, became the first to die on Nov. 1 at Los Angeles International Airport. But Westside Today reports that the House Appropriations Committee this week approved a legislative amendment that would provide the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into widespread problems at the Veterans Affairs Department, CNN reports. Among other things, agents are examining the long wait lines and whether paperwork was falsified to make delays appear shorter. “At the department’s direction, the FBI has instructed agents in its Phoenix office to conduct…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When FBI agents raided the Montana cabin of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in April 1996, they found a bomb ready to use, according to the author of a book on the case. KCRA interviewed former FBI Agent Terry Turchie, who reveals chilling new details in a book, “How the FBI Broke Its Own…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are accused of mistreating children in 116 reported cases of abuse, according to a compliant filed by Customs and Border Protection. CNN reports that the cases range from sexual abuse to holding young undocumented immigrants in cramped, dirty condition, CNN reports. The cases span several years. “Given these longstanding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA can’t understand why seemingly educated people are trying to bring guns onto airplanes. The Washington Post reports that the federal agency has been alarmed at the increase in the number of guns detected at checkpoints nationwide. In 2013, the TSA detected 1,800 firearms, compared to 1,500 in 2012 and 1,300…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has obstructed research into the medical benefits of marijuana in an attempt to keep the drug from being reclassified, according to a new report, AlJazeera reports. “The DEA impedes research by abusing its discretionary powers over the scheduling process, making it difficult to obtain marijuana for research purposes. We recommend…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI defeated an insidious computer virus using anti-hacker tactics that the bureau didn’t have a few years ago, Bloomberg reports. The cyberbattle with Gameover Zeus ended in victory last week after FBI experts reverse-engineered the virus’ communication, seized control over servers overseas and kept hackers from re-establishing contact. “This was the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days after Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to speak at Springfield College’s commencement in 1964, the FBI tried to get the school to cancel speech, the Atlantic reports in an account detailing new questionable tactics against the civil rights icon. At the time, King had been the subject of extraordinary…
