By MassLive Editorial If the CIA and the Justice Department were to get married, what kind of kids might the odd couple have? One answer: Spies who’d believe that they possess the legal smarts to talk their way out of nearly anything. When The Wall Street Journal reported late last year that the Justice Department was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are going to have a harder time getting overtime under a proposal to overhaul the system after a whistleblower exposed abuse, FOX10 News reports. The overhaul of the overtime system is expected to save about $100 million. The agents aren’t happy about the new system, though, because many…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Serious claims launched against Secret Service agents may not be true. CNN interviewed law enforcement officials who contradicted a Washington Post story that asserted two Secret Service agents crashed through a crime scene at the White House. But according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, the agents did not interrupt…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four burglars masquerading as DEA agents were busted in the act. WKYT.com reports that Lexington Police interrupted these burglars at an apartment complex where they had barged in early this morning, claiming to be part of a DEA sting. “Some officers responded. They ended up interrupting a burglary. As they did…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two high-ranking Secret Service agents accused of striking a White House security fence while being heavily intoxicated interfered with an active bomb investigation, The Washington Post reports. The agents may have even run over the suspicious package, which was dropped off by a woman about a half hour earlier. At 10:25…
By Simone Weichselbaum The Marshall Project Richard Garcia, the FBI assistant director in charge of the bureau’s Los Angeles office, was unfazed to learn in 2005 that the agency had agreed to cooperate in the making of a Hollywood film based on his work managing a rogue agent who was suspected of being a Russian…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has done a poor job protecting the public from sex offenders who are enrolled in the national witness protection program, according to the department’s inspector general. The Associated Press reports that of the 10 participants who had been convicted of a sex crime, four were not required to…
