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Column: Woodward and Bernstein, 40 Years Later, Nixon Was Far Worse Than We Thought
By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Washington Post As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?” Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of…
ICE Busts 190 People in Child Porn Crackdown
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed agents arrested 190 people in a month-long, nationwide crackdown on child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday. Additionally, authorities said they rescued 18 victims. Operation Orion was carried out through the month of May by agents from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents during a month-long. The operation…
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Channing Tatum may Play Secret Service Agents
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Word on the street is that actress Maggie Gyllenhaal may play a Secret Service agent in the upcoming film “White House Down.” Channing Tatum has already been cast as a Secret Service agent. Gyllenhaal is in talks to play a patriotic Secret Service Agent, reports Film School Rejects. Jamie Foxx is in…
Drug Trafficking Rings Exploited Commercial Airlines
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details of Thursdays’ massive drug bust reveal an ongoing game of whack-a-mole between the DEA and drug smugglers working the commercial airline systems. In this recent bust the DEA and FBI, in concert with Puerto Rican and local authorities, disabled two rings trafficking cocaine into the U.S., primarily through Puerto Rico Muniz…
Pakistani Man Arrested for Posing as FBI Agent to Swindle Victims
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Hayat Khan, a 48 year old Pakistani man, was arrested Thursday for impersonating an FBI agent in Pakistan, swindling victims out of millions of rupees, reports the New York Post. Khan earned victims’ trust by exchanging $500 to $1000 of authentic currency, telling victims there was more where that came from because…
House Votes Down Proposal to Downgrade TSA Uniforms
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Can a uniform itself lead to abuse of power? If the uniform in question belongs to TSA airport screeners, the House says “No”. Thursday the House voted down a proposal that would have stripped Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners of badges, shields and police-like uniforms, reports The Hill. Rep. Marsha Blackburn…
Puerto Rico Airport Was Hub in Major Drug Trafficking Bust
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Things got hot in Puerto Rico Thursday for two criminal organizations busted for massive-scale narcotics trafficking. Thirty-six arrests were made in a major bust, culminating a collaboration between the DEA, the Puerto Rico PD, FBI, and San Juan Municipal Police. It was all part of an effort to disable two criminal organizations…
FBI Probing Theft of 6.4 Million Passwords of Linkedin
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Welcome to the endless headaches of the 21st Century. Reuters reports that the FBI is investigating the theft of 6.4 million members’ passwords from the social network LinkedIn. The company says it doesn’t know of any accounts being taken over. To read more click here. OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Slack…