By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s immigration plans have been placed on hold by a federal judge in Texas so that states have time to argue their case against the president’s controversial executive action. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked the plan with a preliminary injunction, ABC News reports. The judge said the injunction was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a brutal lynching even by Georgia’s standards. On July 25, 1946, a white mob tied up a black couple in their 20s and shot them 60 times. The notorious incident became known as the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching. No one has been prosecuted in the case. But The Guardian…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been advised they are under no obligation to arrest drunken drivers and will face no consequences for letting the suspects go, CBS5 reports. A training memo that has been circulating among agents reminded them that they have no legal authority to arrest someone for breaking…
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board During a widely lauded speech at Georgetown University last week, FBI Director James B. Comey proved that he’s no J. Edgar Hoover. Instead of glossing over unpleasant truths about the relationship between minority communities and the police, Mr. Comey seized on the opportunity to acknowledge the reality of racial bias…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One reason the Secret Service is making so many embarrassing blunders may have something to do with the lack of training. The Fiscal Times reports that the Secret Service’s uniformed officers trained for an average of just 25 minutes in fiscal 2013, a significant decline over previous years The Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A computer programmer who was wrongfully convicted of stealing trading codes from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2009 is suing the FBI agents who helped put him in prison, Bloomberg reports. Sergey Aleynikov, who inspired Michael Lewis’s best-seller “Flash Boys,” claims in the lawsuit that agents violated his constitutional against unreasonable…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While FBI Director James Comey offered a sobering critique of law enforcement’s handling of African Americans, his agency isn’t exactly a beacon of diversity. Politico reports that the percentage of black FBI agents has declined over the past two decades. African Americans only represent 4.7% of the FBI’s special agents, a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Phil McNiff, a former FBI agent and executive vice president of the New York Yankees, died Sunday, The Tampa Tribune reports. McNiff died following “a long, difficult battle with an illness that sapped his memory and his remarkable spirit of caring for people.” McNiff, whose older brother also worked for the…
