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AG Eric Holder to Unveil Stiff New Racial Profiling Protocols After Ferguson
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Speaking at a church where Martin Luther King once preached, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that he soon will be unveiling stringent new protocols for reducing profiling by federal law enforcement, Time reports. The new protocols would represent the first change to racial profiling guidelines on the federal level in…
Homeland Security Secretary Johnson to Defend President Obama’s Immigration Orders
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has a tough task ahead – defending President Obama’s executive order on immigration to combative Republicans. Fox News reports that Johnson is set to appear today before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the executive actions. “The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people…
FBI Helps Search for College Student Who Has Been Missing for 4 Days
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping search for a college student who has gone missing for four days in Philadelphia. CBS Philly reports that the bureau’s Violent Crime Task Force is getting involved. Supervisory Special Agent J.J. Klaver said the search won’t be easy. “It’s a real challenge,” Klaver said. “Looking for video…
FBI Warns Military Members That ISIS Wants to Attack Them at Home
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI issued a strong warning Sunday that ISIS and other terrorist groups want to target military members where they live in the U.S., ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security issued a join intelligence bulletin, urging military members to remove anything from their social media accounts that would bring…
Justice Department Prepares to Turn Over Nearly 30,000 Emails in IRS Probe
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did the IRS improperly disclose taxpayer information to the White House? It has been a question that is more than a year old but may finally yield an answer after the Justice Department said it is close releasing thousands of documents related to the IRS investigation, International Business Times reports. The…
Questions Linger a Year After Woman Fatally Shot by Secret Service in Washington D.C.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A year after Secret Service agents fatally shot Mariam Carey in Washington D.C., many of the circumstances leading to her death remain a mystery, Gawker reports. The 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut made a U-turn at a White House checkpoint before she was gunned down by the Secret Service and Capitol…
David Laufman To Oversee Justice Department’s Increased Counterespionage Efforts
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com David Laufman, an experienced former federal prosecutor, will take over the Justice Department’s counterespionage efforts as part of a larger restructuring to put more of a focus on cyber attacks, Reuters reports. Laufman is expected to begin his job today as chief of the counterespionage section of the Justice Department’s national…