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Secret Service Gives Child ‘Timeout’ for Slipping Through White House Fence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service agents are used to the jumpers – the people who hop over the White House fence. But Thursday night was different when a toddler slipped through the gate in site of arms officers trained to protect the president, the Associated Press reports. His discipline? Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said the…
NAACP Calls for FBI Investigation into Killing of Unarmed Teen Near St. Louis
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil unrest over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police turned into looting and vandalism Sunday evening as investigators try to piece together what happened. The Associated Press reports that the St. Louis County chapter of the NAACCP is urging the FBI to take over the case of 18-year-old Michael…
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Opinion: A Border Patrol Without Borders
By John Stossel Pittsburgh Tribune-Review If I drive across a U.S. border, I expect to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. But imagine driving to the grocery store, or Mom’s house, well inside America, and being stopped by the Border Patrol. Many Americans don’t have to imagine it — it’s how they live. Even as…
Protesters Crawl Under Border Patrol Truck in Attempt to Stop Arrest
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Protesters crawled under a Border Patrol vehicle to stop agents from transporting a driver who was taken into custody for being in the U.S. without documentation, the Tuscon News Now reports. The incident happened at 2:45 p.m. when Tucson police pulled over a driver for making an improper turn. Saying the driver…
Retired-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns Open Letter to Congress
To the Honorable Members of the Senate and House of Representatives: My name is Jay Dobyns. In January of this year, I retired from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after twenty-seven years of decorated service. Today is the six-year anniversary of the arson of my home. My wife and two children were inside…
Weekend Series on Law Enforcement History: Nixon Delivers Eulogy at FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Funeral
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FBI Seizes Work Email Account of Fired Ford Motor Co. Engineer
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has copies of the work email account of a fired Ford Motor Co. engineer who is accused of hiding listening devices in the automaker’s conference rooms, the Detroit News reports. The contents of the email account include files, pictures, drafts, address boxes, contact lists and calendar data of fired Ford…
FBI Abruptly Changes Course on Hiring Company to Grade Positivity of News
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has ended its controversial quest to hire a company to grade whether news is positive, neutral or negative, the Washington Times reports. The bureau abruptly removed the contract solicitation without explanation, and the FBI declined to discuss it. Journalism ethicists expressed worries about the FBI’s plans to grade news coverage….