By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI acknowledged Tuesday that it violated its own guidelines in 2013 by investigating environmental advocates who were protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, The New York Times reports. Agents were investigating claims that some opponents planned to damage part of the existing pipeline, which sends oil from Canada to the Gulf…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 19-year-old man who killed himself after shooting an FBI agent was wanted for Denver-area bank robberies, the Denver Post reports. The man, Jesus Emmanuel Avila, was known as the “Longhorn Bandit” and was wanted in about a half dozen Denver-area robberies. At the time of the shooting, FBI agents were…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A powerful bi-partisan House committee is investigating serious flaws found in FBI labs, McClatchy reports. Leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voiced “grave concern” about recent discoveries that the FBI came to erroneous conclusions on hair analysis that ended up being far from perfect. “The scope of this…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Another Border Patrol supervisor is in hot water. This time James Doran, 54, who is the supervisor of the Border Patrol’s Laredo office, is expected to be charged today for allegedly collecting more than $108,000 in Social Security benefits to which he was not entitled, the Laredo Morning Times reports. An…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal air marshals should not be using gun ranges that aren’t proven to be led free, the top attorney for the marshals told TSA on Tuesday. The Seattle Times reports that a letter from attorney Lawrence Berger, who represents the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, was sent to to the agency…
