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Help Wanted: CBP Looks to Hire 2,000 New Officers in 18 States
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After a hiring freeze that eroded Border Patrol’s staff, CBP is looking to hire 2,000 new officers to work in air, land and sea ports in 18 states across the nation, CBS Detroit reports. The hirings are designed to improve security and reduce wait ties at border crossings. CBP plans to deploy…
Homeland Security Crackdown Nets 600+ Arrests of Suspected Gang Members
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security arrested more than 600 suspected gang members in what is being called the largest gang crackdown ever by the agency, the Associated Press reports. The operation, dubbed “Project Southbound,” involved Ice agents and local authorities in 179 cities, leading the arrest of 638 suspected gang members between March and April….
Alleged Member of Hacktivist Collective, Anonymous, Faces A Prison Sentence of 440 Years
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators announced a total of 44 charge against a suspected member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Fidel Salinas, 27, of Donna, Texas, could be sentenced up to 444 years in prison for conspiring with the collective to hack computer systems of a county government, a school district and a newspaper in…
Charges Against U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm Put Spotlight on His 11-Year FBI Career
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who was indicted on fraud and other charges this week, served as an FBI agent for 11 years, spending about half of that time investigating financial corruption, the Wall Street Journal reports. Grimm’s congressional biography states that he worked in the New York FBI office from 1995 to…
Audio: FBI Agents Interview – And Threaten – Potential Informant in Recorded Phone Call
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Naji Mansour is an American living abroad. His refusal to become a government informant has left his life in shambles. He was banned from seeing his family and was locked up in a squalid prison in South Sudan, Mother Jones reports. Mansour recorded a conversation with two FBI agents who tried to…
FBI Director James Comey Says He Keeps in Touch With Robert Mueller
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Just in case you were wondering, the answer is Yes. FBI Director James B. Comey, who was in Detroit Tuesday to visit with the local agents and law enforcement folks, told reporters that he keeps in touch with the man he replaced, Robert S. Mueller III. “He’s been a…
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Becomes Sixth Republic Governor Under Scrutiny by Investigators
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Republican governors have been under heat recently, and the latest is Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. The FBI is investigating whether Brownback confidantes were running an influence-peddling operation over getting people personal access to the governor, MSNBC reports. He’s far from the only Republican governor receiving scrutiny. According to MSNBC: New Jersey Gov….
Public Face of Anonymous Pleads Guilty in Case That Could Land Him in Prison for 8.5 Years
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Barrett Lancaster Brown became the public face for Anonymous, a hacking collective that has wrecked havoc on computers nationwide. Now the spokesman-like figure faces up to eight-and-half years in prison for public posts he made on YouTube and Twitter targeting FBI Agent Robert Smith because authorities were threatening to go after his…