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Too Much Partying for 2 TSA Officers in South Beach; Trashed Hotel Room and Fired Bullets
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Transportation Security Administration officers apparently felt they had to let off a little steam. The Miami Herald reports that TSA officers Jeffrey Piccolella, 27, and Nicholas Anthony Puccio, trashed their South Beach hotel room Tuesday night and shot six rounds out the window with a semi-automatic handgun. The paper reported…
Secret Service Could Shut Down Chicago Rails Under Convention During Nato Summit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service could make some Chicago commuters pretty miserable. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Secret Service is considering shutting down rail lines that run under the McCormick Place, Chicago’s massive convention center, during the May 20-21 Nato summit. The paper reports the action would be taken to help protect…
Loss of Fed Tax Prosecutors Slows Crackdown on Offshore Bank Accounts
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something doesn’t seem right here. Bloomberg news reporst that the Justice Department has lost almost 30 percent of its tax prosecutors in the past month. Bloomberg reported that the loss is slowing down the U.S. crackdown on offshore banks and tax evasion. “To move one-third of these people from that effort…
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FBI Training Said Arabs Were Prone to “Jekyll & Hyde Temper Tantrums”
By Spencer Ackerman WIRED The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals. Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training, warned agents against shaking hands with “Asians” and said Arabs were prone to “Jekyll & Hyde temper…
JetBlue Pilot Goes Bonkers; Charged With Interfering With Flight Crew
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Most often when someone on the plane has lost it, it’s a passenger. But this time was different. JetBlue Pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon, 49, went a little off the deep end, yelling things about Jesus and Sept. 11. and terrorists. He was charged on Wednesday in federal court in the…
ACLU Says FBI Gathered Info on Legal Activities of Muslims
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ACLU says FBI documents show that the San Francisco FBI gathered intelligence on American Muslim religious organizations on their “constitutionally protected beliefs and activities, without any suspicion of wrongdoing. The ACLU said in a story posted on its website that the FBI gathered the info from 2004 through at least…
FBI’s Top Cyber Cop: “We’re Not Winning”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The message from the FBI’s top cyber cop is that the bad guys are winning the cyber war. “We’re not winning,” Shawn Henry told the Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett. Henry, who is about to retire from the FBI, said the current methods of fending off hackers isn’t sustainable. He said…