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Travelers Rate Airports for Efficiency of Checkpoints, Arrive at Different Conclusions
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What are the most efficient and headache-inducing airport checkpoints in the nation? The USA Today sought to find out by asking frequent flyers to voluntarily rate checkpoints for efficiency. The results were subjective and varied by traveler. Some targeted Orlando, Los Angeles and Raleigh, NC, as the least efficient airport checkpoint. One…
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Caught Running His Mouth During Prison Visit
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Boston Marathon Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is running his mouth. The New York Daily News reports that Tsarnaev made a “statement of to his detriment” while his sister was visiting him in prison. Federal prosecutors didn’t reveal what Tsarnaev said but objected to his attorneys trying to suppress the statement. The FBI was…
L.A. Times Editorial: It’s the U.S.-Mexico Border, not the Wild West
By L.A. Times Editorial Now we have an idea why the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service was keeping secret an independent report of its encounters at the Mexican border. Because it has something to hide. As The Times’ Brian Bennett reported last week, an independent report by the nonprofit Police Executive Research Forum sharply…
FBI Insists It Destroys Fingerprints During Expedited Airport Screening Process
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com There’s good news for travelers: They can expedite the slow screening process at airports. The bad news: They’ll have to give up a set of their fingerprints to ensure they are the person they say they are, the Chicago Tribune reports. But the FBI said there are no privacy concerns because law…
Journal Sentinel Editorial: ATF’s Stings Were an Embarrassing ‘Joke’ by Federal Government
By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial The deputy director of the ATF told a congressional subcommittee last week that the agency is out of the business of undercover storefront stings for now after embarrassing revelations in this newspaper that illustrated how badly botched some of these operations were. Thomas E. Brandon told the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee…
Network Engineer Tapped FBI, Secret Service Phones Using Google Maps
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A network engineer managed to listen to phone calls to the FBI and Secret Service by using Google Maps. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Bryan Seely created fake listings and was able to listen to calls at the FBI office in San Francisco and the Secret Service office in Washington D.C. When…
Mentally Ill Man Gets 15 Years in Prison for Plotting to Blow up Bank of America in California
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A homegrown terror plot in California was so fanciful and bizarre that few people believe the California suspect could have pulled it off. Nevertheless, a judge sentenced Aaron Llaneza to 15 years in prison Thursday for trying to blow up a Bank of America in Oakland with a fake bomb, which investigators…