Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While new spread across the U.S. that three Secret Service agents were sent home from Amsterdam after one of them was found passed out drunk in a hallway. But the Washington Post reports that hard-partying Amsterdam residents barely registered the news. The newspapers weren’t interested either. “These are young guys. It happens,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, this won’t help the U.S. Secret Service if it’s trying to shake it rep as a party-and-get-crazy agency. Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura of the Washington Post report that three Secret Service agents on the presidential detail this week in Amsterdam were sent home and put on administrative leave…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — If it hadn’t have been so potentially deadly and scary, Nigerian terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Christmas day Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in 2009 might have made a good Saturday Night Live skit. Witness Michael Zantow, who was flying to Wisconsin to visit his ailing mom from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the “underwear bomber” isn’t going down without a fight — despite the overwhelming evidence against him. The Detroit News reports that Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is asking a federal judge to change his trial to another state, saying he can’t get a fair trial in Michigan because…
