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How Would Government Shutdown Affect Homeland Security, Employees?
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A political battle between President Obama and Republicans over immigration has many observers worried about a Homeland Security shutdown at the beginning of March. What would that look like? The National Journal explains: It’s likely that the majority of DHS employees would still go to work. And the main agency tasked…
American Federation of Government Employees Video Shows Constant Dangers
The American Federation of Government Employees released a new video to show that Border Patrol agents are exposed to dangers from drug cartels and undocumented immigrants. The video includes candid interviews with agents about their close encounters. The AFGE represents more than 17,000 Border Patrol agents. Other Stories of Interest New Chairman of Homeland Security…
FBI Director Comey Speaks at Memorial Service of Slain NYPD Officer
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Speaking at the memorial service of slain New York City Police Officer Wenjian Liu on Sunday, FBI Director James Comey said he was perplexed by the increase in police officer deaths in 2014, Fox News reports. “One hundred and fifteen were killed last year,” Comey said at the service in Brooklyn….
Catch-22 for FBI Linguists Who Come Under Suspicion for Preparing for Job
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com How’s this for a Catch-22? To be a linguist for the FBI, you typically need to spend a few years in a foreign country, creating ties with the residents and learning the language. But living and developing ties in some foreign countries can raise red flags within the FBI, sometimes delaying…
FBI Searches for ‘Ethical’ Hackers to Help Combat Increasing Cyber-Attacks
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The level of sophistication of today’s hackers has made it difficult for the FBI to combat cyber-attacks. With attacks on the rise, the bureau announced it’s looking for technology experts – even people with experience in “ethical hacking” – to become “cyber special agents,” the Chicago Tribune reports. “Cyber permeates every aspect of…
Oversight Report Blasts Homeland Security for Failing on All Its Missions
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security has failed on all five of its main missions, according to a scathing oversight report by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, Fox News reports. “Ten years of oversight of the Department of Homeland Security finds that the Department still has a lot of work to do to strengthen our nation’s…
NY Times: F.B.I. Employees With Ties Abroad See Security Bias
By Eric Schmitt New York Times WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. is subjecting hundreds of its employees who were born overseas or have relatives or friends there to an aggressive internal surveillance program that started after Sept. 11, 2001, to prevent foreign spies from coercing newly hired linguists but that has been greatly expanded since then….
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Story of the Ronald Reagan Shooting
httpv://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0 Read the book, “Rawhide Down,” by Del Quentin Wilber