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Border Patrol Station Opening in Arizona, Honors Fallen Agent Brian Terry
Steve Neavlng ticklethewire.com A grand opening is planned Tuesday for the U.S. Border Patrol’s new station in Naco, Arizona, the Associated Press reports. The station will honor Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in December 2010 in a gun skirmish with armed Mexican bandits on the U.S. side of the Arizona and Mexican…
Retired FBI Special Agent Treks Across Country to Raise Awareness, Money for Fallen Heroes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI special agent is riding a bike across the country with his wife to raise money and awareness for a nonprofit that assists surviving family members of fallen law enforcement personnel, the Syracuse Post-Standard reports. Jim Caverly, who retired in 1999 after 27 years at the FBI, started his trip…
Homeland Security Expert: Libya Needs Help with ‘Fragile’ Security
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. has failed to support Libya after the killing of its longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011, said former Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend, CNN reports. Townsend made the remarks Wednesday morning after the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. Townsend said the country has a “very…
FBI Stays Busy in Metro Detroit, Targeting Suburban Warren
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As jury selection continues in the corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, FBI agents are investigating suburban Warren city government over a trash hauling contract, the Detroit News reports. The FBI is focusing on Deputy Public Service Director Gus Ghanam (pictured here) and the purchase of garbage trucks, according…
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“I got to Fort Collins and I saw this huge store called Jax,” he laughs. “And I thought to myself, ‘oh, they’re going to crush me like a bug!’ Jax was a big landmark and a big name.” Quinlan called his new business Rocky Mountain Surplus. “I was selling some of the same items they…
Daily Beast: Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan on Bin Laden’s Death, War on Terror
By John Avlon Daily Beast Ali Soufan, former FBI agent, security consultant and author of “Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda” talks to the Daily Beast about terrorism. How’s the Obama administration doing? “Total elimination of Al Qaeda.” Soufan said. “They are hitting leaders of al Qaeda, and…
Federal Government Needs to Reopen 9/11 Investigation, Says Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham urged the federal government to reopen the investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to identify “an external support system,” the Florida Sun Sentinel reports. On the anniversary of 9/11, Graham, who was a U.S. Senator at the time of the attacks, told an audience he believes…
Money Pours into Manpower, Technology for Border Protection
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Persistent budget cuts haven’t stopped the flow of money spent on technology and manpower to try and stop the flow of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, NPR reports. Over the past 25 years, the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars building fences and detention centers and pursuing suspects with Blackhawk…