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Justice Department to Spend $20M on Body Cameras for Police
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department plans to help police departments equip officers with body cameras, The Washington Post reports. The DOJ is launching a pilot program to determine the impact of the cameras, which come at a time when protesters nationwide are accusing police of unlawful force and racism. The plan is to…
Secret Service Continues to Pay Ousted Deputy Director After Leadership Changes
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Members of Congress are finding little reason to begin trusting the Secret Service again after a series of blunders and employee problems. The House Oversight and Government Reform committee discovered this week that Alvin “A.T.” Smith, who was ousted as deputy director of the agency, is still paid by the Secret…
TSA Agent Charged with Faking Cancer for 5 Years to Get Out of Work
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent has been charged with faking cancer for five years in an attempt to stay out of work, The Associated Press reports. The former TSA agent, Marc Bess, was arrested after authorities said they discovered he was lying about having abdominal lymphoma. In fact, he’s cancer-free, the AP reported….
Joseph Piersante Becomes First DEA Agent to Receive Secretary of Defense Medal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Agent Joseph Piersante, who was shot and wounded by enemy gun fire while on a counter-terrorism and narcotics mission in Afghanistan in 2011, became the first DEA agent to receive the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom. The The Defense of Freedom Medal is the civilian equivalent…
Horrifying 50 Minutes for Border Patrol Agent Who Drove into River
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Emergency responders rescued a Border Patrol agent whose car plunged into the St. Clair River in Michigan early Wednesday morning. The Detroit Free Press reports that that agent was in the water for about 50 minutes, hanging onto the seawall near a water treatment plant in Algonac before he was rescued….
Singer of FBI-Obsessed ‘Louie Louie” dies at age of 71
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The song “Louie Louie,” was an obsession of the FBI’s in the 1960s. In trying to determine whether the song violated the Federal Interstate Transportation Obscene Matter statues, the FBI spent two years analyzing the song and lyrics, resulting in a 455-page obscenity investigation. The singer and songwriter, Jack Ely died…
FBI Helped Facilitate Ransom Exchange Between Americans, al Qaeda
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI helped facilitate ransom payments to al Qaeda from the family of Warren Weinstein, an American who was kidnapped at gunpoint and held hostage for four years before being killed in a U.S. drone strike, CNN reports. “Over the three and a half year period of Warren’s captivity, the…
DEA Does Not Owe Company Money for Using Truck without Permission
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge has ruled that the DEA is not required to compensate a Texas trucking company for damaging a tractor trailer that the agency used during a wild 2011 sting without permission. The Washington Post reports that the tractor trailer was riddled with bullets after the sting ended in the execution-style…