Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It appeared to be Janet Napolitano’s turn to get roughed up by Rep. Darrell Issa, who has been spearheading a probe into ATF’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious, that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all with the hopes of tracing guns to the Mexican cartels. Politico reports that…
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — Dennis Burke, one of Arizona’s most prominent and well-connected Democratic political figures, abruptly resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor Tuesday, stirring doubts about earlier expectations that he might mount a bid for governor, attorney general or U.S. senator. Burke served in Washington as a senior adviser to Homeland…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday announced charges against 72 people in connection with an international network dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of child pornography. Authorities said it was the largest prosecution of its kind in the U.S. involving a pedephillia bulletin board. The investigation, lead by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Goodbye Code Orange, Code Yellow. We’ll hardly miss ya. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is set Wednesday to announce the new terrorism advisory warnings that will replace the color coded ones many citizens became numb to. Authorities said they will include a clear statement on the nature of the threat,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton on Tuesday vowed to go after the gunmen who fatally shot ICE agent Jaime J. Zapata and wounded agent Victor Avila in an ambush along a road in Mexico last week. “Together, the United States and Mexico will bring the long, hard arm of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise. Mexican authorities are saying that two ICE agents who were shot in the northern part of the country Tuesday were ambushed on a road about four hours north of Mexico City by drug cartel gunmen, the Washington Post reports. One died and the other was wounded and is stable…
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…
