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Washington Times Sues Homeland Security for Confiscating Reporter’s Notes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Washington Times has sued Homeland Security after federal agents seized a reporter’s notes, the Associated Press reports. The suit accuses federal agents of illegally seizing the materials during a search warrant over a gun and potato launcher allegedly possessed by the reporter’s husband. Now the newspaper wants the notes back and…
FBI Spied on French Philosophers Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre Over Their Politics
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What does it mean to be alive? Who are we? What is our purpose? Those weren’t the question the FBI was interested in answering while agents spied on French philosophers John-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Instead, the FBI was concerned about their politics and whether they were a danger to the U.S.,…
Dallas Morning News: City Will Never Truly Get Beyond Nov. 22, 1963
Dallas Morning News Editorial Fifty years is a relative blip on the grand timeline, barely a rounding error between your genesis point and the end of life as we know it. Yet in human terms, 50 years is longer than many life spans, past and present. In Dallas terms, 50 years is five decades of…
Former Secret Service Agent Depicts Unflattering Picture of Bureaucrats in New Book
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 12-year Secret Service agent who resigned in 2011 to run for a Senate seat in Maryland has written a book about his career. Dan Bongino’s “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from it All” hit the bookshelves Tuesday, offering a look at the staffers, acolytes,…
Notorious Mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger Appeals Convictions Less Than Week After Prison Sentence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger plan to appeal his murder and racketeering conviction less than a week after he was sentenced to two life terms in prison, Reuters reports. The brief filing in U.S. District Court in Boston does not list specific objections. But Reuters suggests Bulger’s attorneys may be…
Homeland Security Nominee Jeh Johnson on Smooth Track to Confirmation – So Far
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If Wednesday was any indication, President Obama’s choice for Department of Homeland Security may have a remarkably smooth nomination process. The Los Angeles Times reports that a Senate committee swiftly supported the appointment of Jeh Johnson, who gained fans among Republicans while the Pentagon’s chief counsel. The committee support means Johnson must…
No Shortage of Conspiracy Theories As 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination Comes Friday
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the U.S. remembers the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Friday, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories. Depending on whom you ask, JFK was killed by the CIA, the mafia, Cuban exile groups, the FBI, southern segregationists or the Soviet Union. The way author and attorney Craig Zirbel sees…
Veteran ATF Agent, Wife Dead in Shooting Possibly Motivated by Domestic Problems
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran ATF agent and his wife are dead following a shooting at a home in Chantilly, Va., CBS-DC reports. Killed were 46-year-old Paul Parisi and his wife, 47-year-old Jannine Parisi, who were found in their home after a report of gunshots just after 5 a.m. Police have not yet divulged details…