By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed authorities in Arizona have busted a special agent with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on charges that she illegally accessed, stole and transferred sensitive U.S. government documents to family members and associates with strong ties to drug trafficking organizations south of the border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Jovana Samaniego…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The FBI in Detroit has issued a warning: Beware of emails that display the FBI seal and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III’s name. The emails, that have been sent to Michigan residents as well as others nationwide, direct people to contact the Department of Homeland Security and send…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who once was considered for the top spot at the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, got some bad news Thursday. The 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his four year sentence, saying the judge was fair, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Who leaked the info on President Obama’s aunt’s immigration status days before the 2008 election campaign? Well, according to the website Talking Points Memo, the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility still wants to know. The Office of Professional Responsibility still has an “ongoing law enforcement investigation”, Freedom of Information…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Certainly it’s not what we want to hear. Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security told a Congressional committee Wednesday that the terrorism threat “facing our country has evolved significantly in the last ten years – and continues to evolve – so that, in some ways, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite the contentious political rhetoric, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said crime and illegal crossings along the Mexico-U.S. border have dropped sharply. She attributed the change to an intensified focus on border enforcement and a “smart and effective approach to enforcing immigration laws.” “We have strengthened the Southwest border in a…
Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and legal counsel in the Minneapolis field office, wrote a “whistleblower” memo in May 2002 and testified to the Senate Judiciary on some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She retired in 2004 and is now a writer and speaker. By COLEEN ROWLEY Minneapolis Star-Tribune A secretive, unaccountable, post-9/11…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced over the weekend that her agency plans to add up to 54 agents in the coming year to Afghanistan to compliment the current lot of 25, the Washington Post reported. The announcement came during Napolitano’s two-day visit to Afghanistan. The added agents will help…
