February 2015 – Page 4 – Tickle The Wire

Transportation Security Officers Closer to Working Without Paychecks

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If Congress doesn’t fund Homeland Security by Friday, transportation security officers will be forced to go to work without pay. NPR reports that officers won’t get paid until lawmakers find a way to fund the department amid a budget showdown with President Obama over his immigration plan. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/02/23/388338500/for-tsa-officers-congress-inaction-on-funding-could-hit-home DHS employees who…

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Weekend Series on Crime: The Gambino Crime Family

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FBI Agent Shot by Own Gun at Firearms Training in California

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent was shot in the leg by his own gun Thursday during a firearms training in California, U-T San Diego reports. Officials said they still aren’t certain if the gun malfunctioned or was accidentally discharged. The unidentified agent was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The accident happened about 10 a.m….

White House Didn’t Invite FBI Director to Conference on Curbing Violent Extremists

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A three-day conference on quelling violent extremism this week did not include the nation’s most senior official tasked with preventing terrorist attacks – FBI Director James B. Comey. The reason the White House didn’t invite him: The administration doesn’t want too much of the focus on law enforcement, The New York Times…

FBI Agent Became Addicted to Heroin After Dependence on Pain Meds

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent accused of stealing heroin from evidence in cases to feed his addiction was first hooked on pain medication, The Washington Post reports. Matthew Lowry, 33, of the Washington Field Office told investigators that he first took heroin in 2013 after stealing a small amount obtained during an undercover…

Former FBI Director Hoover Would Have Been Suspicious of Comey’s Speech on Race

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By E.J. Dionne Washington Post Last week’s speech by FBI Director James Comey at Georgetown University was remarkable on its own terms, but revolutionary in the context of his agency’s history. You wonder if the late J. Edgar Hoover would have accused Comey of subversive intent. “All of us in law enforcement must be honest…

All 9 Former DEA Administrators Join Forces to Oppose Legalization of Pot in Colorado

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By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All nine of the DEA’s former administrators signed an amicus brief that was filed Thursday in support of a Supreme Court petition challenging Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws, Politico reports. The directors are siding with Oklahoma and Nebraska’s Supreme Court petition that challenges legalization. The law in Colorado “gravely menace[s]…[t]he health, comfort…

ACLU: Border Patrol Responsible for Chronic Inhumane Treatment of Immigrants

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By ACLU Attorney James Lyall Arizona Daily Star For years, watchdog groups have issued report after report detailing the brutal conditions faced by children in Border Patrol custody. Since 2008, non-governmental aid organizations have documented at least 1,600 specific examples of children suffering abuse and inhumane environments in the Border Patrol’s detention facilities. Border Patrol…