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U.S. Border Patrol Rescues Injured Boy in Mountains of New Mexico
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol rescued a child who injured his leg on a hunting trip in the mountains of New Mexico, the Associated Press reports. A Border Patrol crew from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Air and Marine in El Paso rushed to save the child in mountains near Deming….
Alabama Releases Over-the-Top Instructional Video on Mass Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Alabama Department of Homeland Security released an unusual instructional video on how respond to a mass shooting, Gawker reports. With haunting music and blood spatter, the six-minute video “scares the shit out of everyone who watches it,” Gawker reported. The video, produced originally by the Houston Police Department, depicts an office…
Investors Business Daily: AG Eric Holder Smears Bankers with Scant Evidence
Investors Business Daily Opinion In an end-of-year press release — posted under the banner headline “Accomplishments Under the Leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder” — the Justice Department boasts of charging “nearly 3,000” bankers with lending discrimination and fraud. If all of them were guilty, this would be quite an accomplishment. Few would argue that…
FBI Agents Association Backs Bill Authorizing Feds to Help Probe Mass Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI Agents Association is supporting a bill that would authorize federal agents to respond and help local authorities during mass shootings and other violence at a public place, the Washington Times reports. The association, which announced its support Wednesday, said the bill would make it easier for feds to help local…
Record Number of Background Checks Performed on Prospective Gun Owners in 2012
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI performed a record number of background checks on people who wanted to buy guns in December and all of 2012, CNN reports. The spike this month – 2.8 million background checks – occurred during two high-profile mass shootings. The number of background checks for the years totaled more than 19.5…
New Orleans’ Top DEA Agent Jimmy Fox is the Target of an Internal Probe Over Possible Ethical Lapse
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jimmy Fox III, head of the DEA in New Orleans, is the subject of an internal investigation, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper reports he may have violated some ethics laws when he put in a bid to oversee sweeping reforms in the police department that had been ordered under…
FBI Lists Most Significant Cases of 2012
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com From espionage to cyber hacking, the FBI has taken on a lot of significant cases in 2012. The following list was posted by the FBI. Insider trading: Charges against seven investment professionals were announced in New York in January alleging an insider trading scheme that netted nearly $62 million in illegal profits….
Behind-the-Scenes Look at FBI Providing Counterterrorism Security at Times Square
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While more than one billion people tuned in to watch the ball drop at Times Square on New Year’s eve, a massive counterterrorism operation was underway. CBS News went behind the scenes to see how the FBI keeps the city safe during one of the busiest nights of the year. “It’s a…