An internal Homeland Security investigation found that Secret Service employees improperly accessed a database 60 times in search of information that would embarrass House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz.
Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy knew about the improper leaking of Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s personnel file at least a week before the information became public, the Inspector General of the Homeland Security found.
An internal government investigation has found that the Secret Service leaked a private file of a congressman in an attempt to embarrass him.
Inspectors general are the watchdogs of federal agencies like the FBI, but they have been stymied by a bureau that has declined to turn over critical records during investigations.
By Editorial Board Cleveland.com At airports around the country, including Cleveland Hopkins International, passengers entering the security wringer run by the Transportation Security Administration have been entertained by a display of some of the instruments of mayhem that agents have taken from people over the TSA’s 14-year history. Earlier this year, the TSA proudly released a year-end…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an alarming discovery: An undercover operation found that investigators could slip through airport security with weapons and phony bombs more than 95% of the time, the Washington Post reports. But that information, which quickly spread nationwide, is considered “classified,” so whoever leaked it could face termination or even jail…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is under examination for its handling of informant payments. The Department of Justice’s Inspector General probe comes as the DEA spends more money on informants. The DEA spent $33 million last year on informants but has done a poor job in the past tracking the money, wrote The Pittsburgh…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the DEA has come under fire over lax punishments for DEA agents accused of participating in “sex parties” with prostitutes in Columbia, The Huffington Post reports. In fact, some of the accused agents received promotions. No one was fired. Allegations of a sex party emerged last month following…
