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‘White House Down’ Features Man’s Fight to Save President After Losing Out on Secret Service Job
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 4-minute trailer of Roland Emmerich’s thriller “White House Down” was released with much fanfare. The film focuses on a capitol policeman, played by Channing Tatum, who was denied a dream job with the Secret Service. But while taking his girl on a tour of the White House, Tatum’s character, John Cale,…
Helping Self to Chips, Soda May Cost Chicago Cop Time in Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Chicago cop is accused of extortion for helping himself daily to chips and soda without paying for them at a liquor store, CBS Chicago reports. Sgt. Ray M. Ramirez, who is described as broke, faces up to 20 years for “openly take items in front of the store’s employees” while visiting…
FBI Wants to Use a Humorous Video For Advanced-Intelligence Classes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of the unusual comes this: The FBI has asked the IFC sketch comedy show “Portlandia” for rights to use a clip from the program in its advanced intelligence training classes, according to Marketplace Punchline. The website cites the Hollywood Reporter: In April, an instructor at the FBI Academy…
FBI Is Scanning Driver’s License Images to Make Potential Matches
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is scouring state databases of driver’s license photos to search for face matches of criminals, WND reports. “A probe photo refers to the photo of the subject of an active FBI investigation that is submitted for search against a photo repository,” states the FBI’s agreement with Illinois, which is nearly…
Opinion: FBI Is Disingenuous in Report About Agent-Involved Shootings
By The Central Florida Future Editorial According to Federal Bureau of Investigation documentation obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the New York Times, the FBI has been found justified in 150 shootings of subjects from 1993 to 2011. Of said shootings, 70 were fatal. “The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents…
Two ex-Border Patrol Agents Sentenced to At Least 30 Years for Massive Human Smuggling Ring
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two former Border Patrol agents were sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for operating a massive human smuggling ring, the Associated Press reports. Federal District Judge John A. Houston sentenced Raul Villarreal, the ring leader, to 35 years in prison Friday; his brother Fidel Villarreal was sentenced to 30 years…
Column: MLB May Never Eliminate Steroid Problem, But It Has Come a Long Way to Substantially Reducing It
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the New York Daily on June 22. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In August 1994, I was attending an FBI sports presentation conference. The bureau has a program where…
NSA Leaker Missing Today After Failing to Board Plane from Russia to Cuba
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Edward J. Snowden was supposed to leave Moscow today for a flight to Havana. He never arrived. U.S. authorities were trying to determine this morning whether the former national security contractor accused of espionage has made alternative travel plans or whether Russian leaders took him into custody, The New York Times reports….