By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The long standoff between Republicans and President Obama ended with a fully funded Homeland Security bill that prevents a partial shutdown. The USA Today reports that the president signed the Homeland Security funding bill Wednesday after Republicans couldn’t come up with the votes to pass an alternative measure. Republicans had hoped…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Secret Service agent and sheriff’s deputy were allegedly assaulted while investigating threatening tweets against President Obama. WHIO.com reports that a 19-year-old Clark County, Ohio, man was arrested at his home after being alerted to online threats against Obama, police and other politicians. When the deputy and agent approached Ronald E….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The boost in oil production in North Dakota has brought a lot of wealth – and crime – to the state. The FBI is responding to an uptick in crime by opening an office in the state’s oil country, The Hill reports. The bureau plans to fully staff the Willinston office…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Berg, a former federal prosecutor and former acting U.S. Attorney, was shot and wounded Thursday night on Detroit’s northwest side. George Hunter of the Detroit News reports that it was an attempted robbery. He was shot in the leg outside his home in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A married FBI informant who was spying on Muslims said the bureau instructed him to sleep with women to get intelligence, The Huffington Post reports. Craig Monteilh, who was known as Farouk al-Aziz, was told to get “personal information” such as phone numbers, emails and friends in the Los Angeles area….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A long-awaited report on Ferguson found numerous constitutional violations that called for new oversight, retraining of employees and abandoning the current approach to policing. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department criticized Ferguson police for routinely making unlawful searches, hurling racial insults and treating anyone as a criminal for…
By Los Angeles Times Editorial It took the House GOP leadership a couple of weeks, but it finally conceded defeat Tuesday and allowed a “clean” funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security to come up for a vote. With all 182 Democrats in the Capitol and 75 of the 242 Republicans lining up in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A group affiliated with the DEA has apologized after tweeting a photo of a Harlem drug dealer to commemorate Black History month, The Washington Post reports. The DEA said the tweet was a misunderstanding. “The focus of original tweet was to be invaluable hard work of African American DEA agents, not…
