Some of these folks look irritated enough just doing their job. Do they need this? By Steve Vogel Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The new blue uniforms issued to Transportation Security Administration officers at hundreds of airports nationwide may have a snazzy look, but they have become a major irritant for some of those…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — I just finished watching the first episode of ABC’s “Homeland Security USA” and I can honestly say the best thing about it was the Domino’s Pizza commercial about its new baked submarine sandwiches. Simply put: ABC deserves a D. The show falls flat. Sure there’s some drugs seized and…
The questionable judgment of TSA and the airlines is costing money. By The Associated Press NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union said Monday JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration paid $240,000 to a man who claimed he was discriminated against based on his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt. Raed…
Ronald C. Ruecker has been named the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Office of Law Enforcement Coordination (OLEC). He replaces Louis F. Quijas, who retired to take a position in private industry, the FBI said. Prior to taking his new post, Ruecker was the Director of Public Safety for the City of Sherwood, Oregon, the…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – An FBI affidavit unsealed Monday provides a few new details of gruesome allegations against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in the 2007 shootings in Baghdad that left at least 14 Iraqi civilians dead and 20 wounded. Washington FBI agent John M. Patarini , in a 3-page affidavit, wrote…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In these gloomy days of cutbacks and layoffs and what not, it may sound a bit strange to hear an organization announcing a “Hiring Blitz”. Well, those are the words being bandied about at the FBI these days. The agency announced a “Hiring Blitz” Monday to fill more than…
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com Attorneys for John Gotti Jr. filed a motion Monday saying their client quit the mob years ago and deserves to be free on bail pending trial in New York on allegations of cocaine trafficking, murder, extortion, jury tampering and kidnapping. The 14-page motion filed in U.S. District Court said Gotti is…
With all the forms of communication these days, federal agencies need to keep up with the “New Media”. By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON — The State Department continues to lead the way among federal agencies making use of new media tools. Colleen Graffey, deputy assistant secretary for public diplomacy, published a column (“A Tweet…
