Border Patrol Assaults Reach Record High This Fiscal Year
It has been an especially dangerous year to be a Border Patrol agent.
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Border Patrol Agents Are Getting Attacked Fewer Times Than Previous Years
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Assaults against Border Patrol agents dropped for the sixth year in a row in fiscal 2014, the Arizona Republic reports. The agency recorded 373 assaults against agents, a 20% decline over 2013. Of those, 366 occurred along the Southwest border. That represents a two-thirds drop since fiscal 2008. Although CPB has…
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…
UPDATED: Report Says Army Could Have “Prevented” Anthrax Attacks in 2001 and Psychiatric Records Support FBI Findings That Bruce Ivins “Was Responsible”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for more on the anthrax controversy. A court-ordered report by the Expert Behavorial Analysis Panel concluded the U.S. Army could have “anticipated” and “prevented” the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, and that a review of psychiatric records of suspect Bruce Ivins “does support the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)determination that he…
Memo Says Terrorists to Try For More Attacks Inside U.S. With “Increased Frequency”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise considering the frequency of attempted terrorist attacks within the U.S. in the past year. CNN reports that an unclassified Department of Homeland Security memo dated May 21 to law enforcement says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine…
Attacks on IRS and its Employees Too Common, Washington Post Reports
Maybe it’s not surprising that in an economic downturn where people are afraid of losing their money, some people who are unstable are taking their frustrations to the next level. By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post WASHINGTON — Attacks on the Internal Revenue Service and its employees similar to Thursday’s small plane crash in Texas are…