By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some members of Congress are questioning the legality of Homeland Security seizing domains and taking down URLs accused of copyright infringement, CNET reports. Among the concerns are that Homeland Security is “seizing the domain names of websites whose actions and content are presumed to be lawful, protected speech,” some Congress members…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have made sexual harassment complaints against a longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, new court records show, according to the Associated Press. The employees accuse Suzanne Barr, the agency’s chief of staff, of sexually harassing male subordinates. The complaints range from offering…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Homeland Security are warning of concerns that anarchist groups may try to use improvised explosive devices at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. It’s unclear how real the threat is because the FBI routinely issues similar advisories ahead of major events and plans…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gender discrimination lawsuit has caused a sense of unrest and turmoil at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York Times reports. The lawsuit, which accuses the agency of retaliation and choosing female employees over male employees, also says the agency’s chief of staff, Suzanne Barr, created a hostile, sexualized environment at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct after police found him nude in the ocean at Myrtle Beach, Carolina Live reports. Michael Worth Calfee, 35, of North Carolina got out of the water and dressed when police arrived. Police said his eyes were red, he was unsteady…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the country’s largest ports is not adequately prepared to fend off terrorists, thieves and other criminals, a former Homeland Security agent said, the New York Post reports. Terrorists “are looking for a weakness, and you’re standing in one of them right now,” Adam Conti, 46, told The Post. “This place…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Concerned about copycat attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is urging suburban mosques to be extra vigilant for suspicious people, the Daily Herald reports. The call comes in response to the weekend shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people and the arson of a mosque in Joplin, Mo….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The top overseer of the Homeland Security Department told a House committee that turf battles over internal public corruption investigations had subsided, the Center for Investigative Reporting reports. But acting Inspector General Charles K. Edwards wouldn’t answer questions about an ongoing investigation of a Texas branch office. Edwards said his 219 investigators…
