By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What do airport screeners look for when they are trying to detect suspicious behavior? The suggestions are part of the TSA’s controversial behavior-detection program, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, which outlines suspicious actions. Although the TSA considers the list of behaviors to be confidential, it was posted online. The ACLU, which…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Senate Republicans want to know whether Border Patrol agents or Homeland Security officials were disciplined for refusing to follow President Obama’s immigration policies. Fox News reports that Republicans are investigating claims that federal managers are retaliating against employees who don’t follow the president’s order. “We are aware of multiple allegations of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Durst, the millionaire real-estate heir who was the subject of a popular TV show, was subjected to an illegal FBI search before he was arrested on murder charges, his attorney said this week. The Boston Herald reports that the FBI “rummaged” through the 71-year-old man’s hotel room without a proper…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was indicted on corruption charges Wednesday, marking the first time a sitting U.S. senator has been criminally charged since Alaska’s Ted Stevens in 2008, The Wall Street Journal reports. The 61-year-old Democrat and key opponent of President Obama’s key foreign-policy initiatives said he was “outraged”…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who stole heroin that was collected as evidence pleaded guilty Tuesday and warned of the powers of addiction. The Washington Post reports that Matthew Lowry, who worked in the Washington Field Office, apologized outside of the D.C. federal courthouse. “Today I informed the court of criminal acts…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who was killed after crashing a stolen SUV outside of the National Security Agency has a criminal history and has been identified. The Washington Post reports that the suspect was Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27. He is accused of smashing a police cruiser with a stolen Ford Escape. The Post…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent in Arizona is accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl while visiting his fiancé’s friend and her children, The Tucson News Now reports. Jeremy Tyler Cole, of Sierra Vista, was charged March 27 on one count of child molestation. Cole was arrested by Chandler Police on Friday. The…
