By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security has failed on all five of its main missions, according to a scathing oversight report by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, Fox News reports. “Ten years of oversight of the Department of Homeland Security finds that the Department still has a lot of work to do to strengthen our nation’s…
By Eric Schmitt New York Times WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. is subjecting hundreds of its employees who were born overseas or have relatives or friends there to an aggressive internal surveillance program that started after Sept. 11, 2001, to prevent foreign spies from coercing newly hired linguists but that has been greatly expanded since then….
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By Peter Hermann Washington Post Staff Writer Federal prosecutors said they will not charge John W. Hinckley Jr. with murder in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary in a 1981 assassination attempt, even though a medical examiner concluded his August death was caused by the old wounds. The decision, announced Friday by the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A threat to the news media following the Sony hack may have been a hoax from a tweeter who was just “messing around,” ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security believed the threat was credible enough to include it in a join intelligence bulletin last week to law enforcement agencies….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Assaults against Border Patrol agents dropped for the sixth year in a row in fiscal 2014, the Arizona Republic reports. The agency recorded 373 assaults against agents, a 20% decline over 2013. Of those, 366 occurred along the Southwest border. That represents a two-thirds drop since fiscal 2008. Although CPB has…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is beginning to help investigate the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico, even as evidence recently surfaced that the country’s government may have been involved in rounding up the young people, NBC News reports. The students, who were training to be teachers, vanished on Sept. 26 after protesting…
By Editorial Board Boston Globe Most Americans have a pretty firm idea of where the borders of the United States lie. But most are unaware that the federal government has an entirely different — and alarmingly far-reaching — definition of the nation’s boundaries when it comes to immigration enforcement. In fact, Customs and Border Protection…
