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Police Fatally Shoot Man Who Threatened to Kill Officers, FBI Agents
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who threatened on a video to kill police and FBI agents was fatally shot by police after they said they feared for their lives, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said police were planning to executive a search warrant after the video surfaced. Police spotted the man near his suburban…
Border Patrol’s Recruitment of Women Gets 5,500 Female Applicants for Jobs
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recruitment effort to hire more women into Border Patrol is paying off as CBP announced recently that it received applications from 5,500 female applicants, Federal News Radio 1500 AM. The agency’s ranks of 21,000 agents only include about 5% women. CBP wants more female agents, partly because more women are…
Adviser: President Obama Would Block 2015 Homeland Security Spending if Amnesty Order Cut
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama said he won’t hesitate to block 2015 funding for Homeland Security if Republicans try to tinker with his executive amnesty along the border, The Huffington Post reports. Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the president would “absolutely not” sign a 2015 spending bill if there are limits on the amnesty…
FBI Agents Briefed on Theory That Disgruntled Sony Workers Staged Cyberattack – Not North Korea
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents investigating the cyberattack on Sony Pictures were brief Monday on an alternative theory that points the finger at disgruntled, laid-off staff – not North Korea – as the culprits of the devastating hack, Politico reports. Security firm Norse provided the information and said the U.S. jumped the gun by blaming…
FBI Looking for Computer-Savvy Agents to Combat Growing Threats of Cyberattacks
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This isn’t J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. A new criminal – a far more elusive one – is attacking companies, governments and personal computers. The rising number of cyberattacks has prompted the FBI to look for more computer-savvy agents who can “keep pace with the evolving threat” of hackers, the Boston Herald…
Man Accused of Threatening, Stalking FBI Agent to Appear in Court in Pittsburgh
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ron Bergrin bragged in an e-mail that he could easily destroy an FBI agent for her role in getting his cousin convicted and then sentenced for racketeering and homicide, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “She thinks she’s living in a safe place, a place where nobody can find out where she lives…
Head of FBI’s Birmingham Office to Retire, Spend More Time with Family
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After 31 years of federal service, Richard D. Schwein Jr. is retiring as the head of Birmingham’s FBI office, AL.com reports. Schwein said he wants to spend more time with his family in North Carolina, where his wife and twin girls live. “I have decided my family needs me more than…
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch Named ticklethewire.com Fed of the Year for 2014
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loretta E. Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, has been named ticklethewire.com Fed of the Year for 2014. Lynch, who was appointed to the post by President Obama in 2010, is known as a solid leader with strong management skills. She has shown a…