Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who served longer than either of her two predecessors, will step down at the end of today to become the first female president of the University of California. “It’s challenging; it’s very rewarding. Because the things you do really impact human lives,” she said in an interview…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After more than four years of as the head of the Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano defended her tenure in one of the government’s newest departments, The Los Angeles Times reports. “Some have said that being the secretary of DHS is the most thankless job in Washington,” Napolitano said at the National…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal lawmakers are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to respond to a Reuters report that showed the NSA was supplying the DEA with surveillance information about domestic, non-terrorism cases, Reuters reported Monday evening. Five Democrats in the Senate and three congressmen want to know if the DEA – as reported – passed NSA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee who was exposed for hosting a racist website that advocates for a race war was placed on paid administrative leave while the agency investigates, the Huffington Post reports on Monday. Ayo Kimathi, acquisitions officer for ICE, forecasts on his site, War on the Horizon, forecasted an “unavoidable, inevitable…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Michelle Colby was a child, she wanted nothing more than to become a veterinarian, The Washington Post reports. She wended her way through school and studied at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Still, she wanted more and became the agriculture defense branch chief for the Department of Homeland Security’s…
Steve Nealving ticklethewire.com By day, Ayo Kimathi works for Homeland Security, often procuring guns and ammunition. By night, the man known as “the Irritated Genie” prepares for a race war, the Atlantic reports. Turns out, Kimathi runs an anti-white, anti-gay site, War Is on the Horizon, the Atlantic wrote. Kimathi was exposed by the Southern…
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with researchers working on the project. The Department of Homeland Security tested…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in line for the top Homeland Security post? Kelly said he’s spent time in Washington D.C., but added Sunday, “I know it’s wise to keep my mouth shut at this time,” Kelly told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” But pressure is building against Kelly, whose…
