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Judge Declines to Lift Hold on President Obama’s Immigration Plans
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation received another setback Tuesday after a judge refused to lift a temporary hold on the executive action. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville declined the administration’s request to lift the preliminary injunction issued on Feb….
Despite Recent Mishaps, Secret Service Teaches Obama Daughter to Drive
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service had a recent mishap behind the wheel at the White House, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from teaching President Obama’s oldest daughter how to drive, The New York Daily News reports. “The Secret Service (taught her) actually, because they wouldn’t let me in the car with her,”…
Buffalo News: FBI, Congress Must Improve Anti-Terrorism Performance
The Buffalo News Editorial Board The good news – and it is good news – is that the FBI has made great strides in transforming itself since the 2001 terror attacks. In a new report by the FBI 9/11 Review Commission, the agency is credited with significantly improving the number of analysts qualified for their…
DEA, Justice Department Secretly Tracked Phone Calls of Americans
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA and Justice Department have been secretly amassing logs of nearly all international phone calls that originated from the U.S., the USA Today reports. The collection of billions of calls came nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The government has tracked calls to as many as 116…
FBI to Offer $300K Reward for Information on 1995 Train Derailment
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect who caused the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in 1995, The Arizona Republic reports. The derailment about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix caused the death of one Amtrak employee and the injury…
Former Head of FBI’s Knoxville Office Sues Bureau, Justice Department
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former chief of the Knoxville FBI office is suing the bureau and the Justice Department for $2.5 million, saying he was falsely accused of violating the law for accepting a position as the senior counterintelligence officer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Oak Ridge field…
Former Top-Ranking Federal Prosecutor Leaves Job for Private Law Firm
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal prosecutor who once was the third highest-ranking official in the Justice Department’s fraud section is headed to the private sector. The New York Times reports that James Koukios is joining private law firm, Morrison & Forester. He was named a partner in the firm’s security litigation and white-collar criminal…
Al Jazeera: Border Patrol Agents Are Out of Control
By Mary Turck Al Jazeera On March 20, the Michigan Attorney General’s Public Integrity Unit charged two U.S. Border Patrol agents with theft and misconduct while on duty. The two agents allegedly stole from a home while executing an agency-authorized search warrant. The case exemplifies the type of unchecked abuse and corruption that has become…