Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Technology glitches have delayed the federal government’s plan to place sensors along the Mexican border, Wired reports. The plan by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection was to saturate the border with a new generation of unattended ground sensors, or UGS. Now the feds are backing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol rescued a child who injured his leg on a hunting trip in the mountains of New Mexico, the Associated Press reports. A Border Patrol crew from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Air and Marine in El Paso rushed to save the child in mountains near Deming….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A letter from Senator Charles Grassley representing a group of 14 Senators is asking Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to reconsider a policy to end routine traffic checks of buses, trains and other vehicles for illegal aliens along the United State’s northern border. “News of the lessened security will only entice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds worry that terrorist aren’t just looking at the big planes as a weapon to kill. ABC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a warning Friday about small planes, saying: “Violent extremists with knowledge of general aviation and access to small planes pose…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a case where the intent may be good, but the execution could be costly and worthless. According to the The Washington Post, an unreleased Government Accountability Office report shows that the Department of Homeland Security plans to spend more than $300 million over the next four years on radiation-detection equipment…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s being described as a wish list for terrorists. ABC reports that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have sent a bulletin to law enforcement agencies alerting them of a terrorist “hit list” posted on a jihadi web site that names 40 prominent figures from government, the U.S. military…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s certainly not the first government boondoggle and it certainly won’t be the last. Nonetheless, it appears it was waste of time and money. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday decided to cut off the ambitious, problem-plagued billion-dollar program SBInet to build a high-tech fence along the Arizona…
By Zack Cohen ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s being satirically dubbed the“war on toner,” a phrase that reflects experts’ skepticism about the U.S. response to al Qaeda’s failed bid to blow up U.S. bound planes with explosive-packed ink cartridges. In other words, the response is hardly sufficient, some experts insist. “In typical TSA fashion [the measures]…
