By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Border Patrol are making an unusual request: They want permission to monitor agents from 20 feet away. Two residents of an Arizona town, Arivaca, filed a lawsuit last year, claiming the Border Patrol violates their First Amendment rights and bullies anyone who protests the checkpoint,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is headed for the Silicon Valley, and the federal agency plans to take advantage of the abundance of tech talent. The department will open a satellite office soon, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a conference in San Francisco, Mercury News reports. The office will “serve as…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A single hair has put George Perrot behind bars for nearly 30 years. Perrot, then 17, was tried and convicted of rape and burglary based on a piece of hair found on the bed sheet of a 78-year-old woman who had been raped, The Guardian reports. There was no blood or…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DEA Director Michele Leonhart, who has come under sharp criticism over agents’ misconduct, has announced her retirement. Attorney General Eric Holder said Leonhart, who served as the agency’s top administrator since 2010, told him of her plans Tuesday, The USA Today reports. She was the first women to serve as director….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA will begin more stringent screening of airport and airline workers following allegations that a Delta Air Lines baggage handler was smuggling guns, In Homeland Security reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also said the security changes are a reaction to another alleged incident in which a Federal Aviation Administration…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Six Minnesota men have been charged with terrorism after the FBI alleges the suspects tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State extremists. The friends were U.S. citizens of Somali descent. They are are Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21; Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19;…
By The Charlotte Observer Editorial Board In a chilling admission last week, the FBI and Justice Department acknowledged that examiners in an elite FBI microscopic hair comparison unit gave flawed testimony in more than 95 percent of trials over approximately two decades before 2000. What’s more chilling is what we don’t yet know about additional…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A white sheriff’s reserve deputy who killed a black man in Tulsa, Okla., did not commit civil rights violations, the FBI has found following an investigation. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tulsa County sheriff’s office held a news conference to announce the FBI findings. “They found no wrongdoing,” Sheriff…
