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Powerful Bipartisan Committee Probes Serious Flaws in FBI Lab Research
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…
Border Patrol Supervisor Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $108K in Benefits
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…
Lawyer: Federal Air Marshals Should Not Use Gun Ranges That Aren’t Lead Free
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…
New Chief Border Patrol Agent for Yuma Sector Is ‘Humbled and Honored’
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Anthony J. Porvaznik was deployed to Bolivia in 1992 to crack down on raw materials being sold for drugs, he said he learned an important less of being a part of Border Patrol. “That experience taught me to emphasize the safety and value of the officers serving,” Porvaznik told the…
FBI: 95 Law Enforcement Officers Killed in 2014, Most of Them Feloniously
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of law enforcement officers “feloniously” killed in 2014 jumped 89% over the past year, according to new FBI statistics that come just a week after the fatal shootings of an officer in New York City and two officers in Hattiesburg, Miss., the FBI reported. The FBI recorded 51 felonious…
Garland Police Say They Never Received FBI Warning of Threat
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the biggest criticisms of federal law enforcement in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, was the lack of communication that could have helped authorities foil the attack. But the communication lapses continue, most recently when police in Garland, Texas, never received an FBI bulletin that specifically warned of one…
Judge Halts Case Amid Claims FBI Threatened Witness in Oklahoma City Bombing Case
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has postponed a civil case involving the Oklahoma City bombing following claims that the FBI had threatened a witness in an attempt to keep him from testifying, Fox 13 Salt Lake City reports. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups appointed a “special master” to monitor the investigation, which is…