By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Warren Lewis, the executive officer at Interpol’s Washington D.C. office, is accused of exploiting his authority to get a job for his son and other relatives and acquaintances, Fox News reports. The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s Office revealed the findings in a reported released Wednesday. Other high-ranking officials are accused of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 57-year-old man claims in a lawsuit that the TSA jailed him for 23 hours in retaliation for asking to file a complaint about the length of a search, the Daily News reports. Roger Vanderklok said security thew him in jail while he was trying to fly from Philadelphia International Airport…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists is believed to be dead following a raid in the Philippines last week, Reuters reports. The FBI collected body matter at the scene of the deadly raid, and a DNA sample shows a strong link to Zulkifli bin Hir. Still, the tests don’t prove…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The terrorist group, ISIS, is recruiting teenagers in the U.S. as part of a broadening campaign of violence, a top FBI official told CNN. Michael Steinbach, head of the FBI’s counterterrorist division, said the teenagers are as young as 15. He said he “can’t speak with 100% certainty that individuals of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies like Google and Microsoft have long expressed frustration with the inability to disclose when they’ve received a secretive compliance order from the FBI seeking records. Under a new FBI policy, companies will be able to disclose the “national security letters,” but only “at the earlier of three years after the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal appeals court wants to know why the Justice Department was targeting a popular marijuana dispensary after the federal government said it would not intervene in states’ medicinal pot laws, The Associated Press reports. “The United States government, the president and the attorney general and the justice department is largely…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gun shortage at the Border Patrol has forced about 400 agents to share 100 rifles, one agent told Fox News. That means agents aren’t able to calibrate their weapon. “We are left to check out rifles that were unzeroed to us,” a border patrol agent told FoxNews.com. “This practice needs…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Border Patrol agent accused of taking two people hostage was arrested Tuesday after an intense standoff that lasted several hours, the El Paso Times reports. Alberto Montelongo, 40, was involved in a domestic dispute with another off-duty Border Patrol agent, authorities said. Another man, who is not an agent,…
