By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The highlight of Kenneth Tate’s career as a private security guard was riding an elevator with President Obama in Atlanta. That ride has cost Tate his $42,000-a-year job, the New York Times reports. President Obama was visiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when Tate took the elevator ride. It…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent for President Obama is expressing optimism that he is going to win Maryland’s Sixth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in what he characterizes “a huge upset,” WND.com reports. Daniel Bongino, the Republican candidate, said he’s feeling good about his chances. “I can…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama is faced with a significant challenge and opportunity. The top three jobs at the Justice Department will soon be vacant, and just four of Obama’s 11 choices for assistant attorney generals have been confirmed, CBS News reports. The vacancies leave a power vacuum at an agency that has been…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Yet another man has jumped the White House fence. This time an unarmed man, Dominic Adesanya, hopped the fence around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Huffington Post reports. The 23-year-old man was tackled by Secret Service dogs. He was the seventh White House fence jumped this year. Other Stories of Interest County…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A top lawyer for the ACLU is President Obama’s choice to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department, a position that has been without a permanent leaders for more than a year, the Washington Post reports. Vanita Gupta, 39,will become the acting head of the division Wednesday. A longtime…
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds USA Today Column There’s a connection between the Secret Service’s Colombian hooker scandal and Americans’ increased worry about Ebola. Both have to do with trust. Until recently, if you’d asked Americans to pick government institutions characterized by efficiency and professionalism, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration has repeatedly denied that anyone from his administration was involved with the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia. But the Washington Post reports that new information suggests one of the presidential advance-team members was involved but never thorough investigated. In fact, the White House continued to say…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Whoever takes over the embattled Secret Service will face an insurmountable task. They must handle plunging morale, a tarnished reputation, budget holes and plenty of blunders that led to the resignation of Director Julia Pierson, the Wall Street Journal reports. How disgruntled are employees? A 2013 survey found that Secret Service…
