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FBI Raids Home, Ministry of Popular Preacher Who Helps Rescue Kidnapped Children in Africa
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A well-known preacher who rescues kidnapped children in Africa is the subject of an FBI investigation after agents raided his home and ministry headquarters, CBN News reports. Sam Childers, who last year won the Mother Teresa Humanitarian Award for his work, found out last week that agents combed through his house and…
Border Patrol Agent Says She Was Fired for Trying to Care for Her Baby
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All Sophia Cruz wanted was be a mom and a Border Patrol agent. But those plans were derailed, she claims, when she was fired in April after being pressured to work against her doctor’s orders while caring for her baby, KOB Eyewitness News 4 reports. “All I wanted to do was nurse…
Prolific Bank Robber with 2 Monickers Is Busted in Washington State
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The suspect is accused of robbing so many banks that he’s earned two nicknames – the “Elephant Man Bandit” and “Cyborg Bandit.” Seattlepi.com reports that authorities arrested a 44-year-old Washington state man on suspicion of robbing 30 banks in the Seattle and Marysville areas in the past year. “(We’re) very elated,” Capt. Steven…
Border Patrol Agents Show Compassionate Side by Donating Money, Bone Marrow
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol employees already make big sacrifices for their job. But Tucson News Now reports that Border Patrol workers in Tucson, Ariz., recently donated more than $335,000 to charities as part of the Arizona Combined Federal Campaign. The charities ranged from helping children with cancer to supporting local food banks. But 30…
CNN Editorial: Stop NSA Assaults on Constitutional Rights of Americns
By CNN Editorial Page The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. This is the beginning of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and defines one of the most important rights we have against a potentially tyrannical government….
How Former DEA Agents Turned From Drug Fighters to Pot Proponents
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paul Schmidt spent most of his career hunting down drug dealers. Now the retired DEA agent – the former top drug enforcer in Oregon – is holding seminars to advise medical marijuana dispensaries on the laws, CNBC reports. DEA Agent Patrick Moen recently gave up his badge to work for a venture-based…
FBI Director Comey Shares Views of Surveillance in Post-NSA America
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James Comey was on a mission in 2004. A deputy attorney general at the time, Comey rushed to the bedside of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to notify him that the White House was trying to reauthorize a warrantless eavesdropping program, the Buffalo News reports. Comey, who is now the director of the…
Wanted: More Than 140,000 Rounds of Sniper Ammunition for Homeland Security
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is in on a shopping spree for more than 140,000 rounds of sniper ammunition, Inforwars.com reports. The department is looking for 141,160 rounds of Hornady .308 Winchester 168gr A-MAX TAP ammunition. The cost per round – $1.20. It’s unclear why the department wants so many rounds of ammunition because the bullets…