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Border Patrol Agent Rescued Following ATV Crash in Texas
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent is recovering from traumatic injuries after his ATV plunged over a ledge near the Rio Grande in Sanderson, Texas. Agents from the Office of Air and Marine boarded a helicopter and rescued the agent soon after the crash. “The safety of our officers and agents is critical….
TSA Director Carraway Removed from Helm After Serious Security Flaws
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In an effort to improve security at U.S. airports, Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson has reassigned the acting TSA head. Al Jazeera English reports that the move comes after the embarrassing discovery that checkpoint scanners miserably failed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95% of the cases. Johnson said Melvin…
Stejskal: The Double Steal — The Right and Wrong Way to Steal Trade Secrets
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com It took about 5,000 years from the discovery of glass until a process was developed to economically mass produce flat glass, and only a few years before the…
U.S. Government Loses Terrorism Fighting Tools As Patriot Act Provisions Expire
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. government has fewer tools to fight terrorism after key provisions of the Patriot Act expired late Sunday despite a last-minute push by some Senators. CNN reports that the expiration ends the NSA’s controversial bulk data collection program. The NSA had been collecting phone metadata on millions of Americans. Law enforcement…
Deadly Police Shootings Reach Nearly 400 Through May of This Year
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police killed at least 385 people nationwide during the first five months of the year, far more than the rate tallied by the FBI, the Washington Post has found. The tally shows that more than two people are killed on average a day, a rate that is more than twice the…
Heroin Making ‘Roaring Comeback’ After Painkiller Addictions Increase
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Heroin is making a “roaring comeback” in New York after people became addicted to opiates by taking prescription painkillers, The New York Daily News reports. “A lot of people became addicted to prescription pills (that were) either legally prescribed or (as) young people taking pills for kicks. And unfortunately, those pills…
Gizmodo: Justice Department Makes It Easier to Hack Computers
Maddie Stone Gizmodo Oh, good. A Department of Justice-proposed rule change that would make it way easier for FBI agents to obtain warrants to hack a computer from basically anywhere was just approved by a US Court committee. Which is to say, we’re one step closer to having our digital privacy rights eviscerated in the name of…