Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama said smoking marijuana is no worse than drinking alcohol. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A secret court must grant permission for the NSA to tap into its vast database of telephone data under a new requirement expected to be announced by President Obama today, the New York Times reports. The move comes after Obama’s administration came under intense criticism for how easily the NSA could access…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s nominee for head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has drawn strong criticism from opponents of the appointment of Debo Adegbile, Fox News reports. They’ve described the former NAACP lawyer as “radical,” “dangerous” and “outside the mainstream.” Now he’s being criticized for playing a role in overturning the death…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Abdulbaki Todashev is agonized by the silence. Since an FBI agent fatally shot his son, Ibragim Todashev, during an investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings in May, the agency has been virtually mum. So, he thought, maybe photos of his son’s bullet-riddled body would prompt President Obama to seek answers. The Boston…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who was sentenced to jail in 2011 for threatening to kill President Obama died in a shootout with police outside of a bank in Phoenix, Ariz., ABC News reports. Mario Edward Garnett was wanted in connection with a spree of bank robberies and the slaying of a police officer in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Already, the new Homeland Security secretary and Sen. John McCain have gotten off on the wrong foot, the Arizona Republic reports. After missing the Senate’s 57-37 vote to confirm Jeh Johnson, McCain said he would have voted against the nomination. Johnson was tapped by President Obama to replace Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Barack Obama had a very amusing anecdote several days ago when praising James Comey as his choice to head the FBI during Comey’s official installment at FBI headquarters. The only question is: Was it even true? Jerry Capeci, mob expert who runs the website Gang Land News, reported that the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama officially welcomed James Comey to his new post as FBI director during a ceremony Monday at the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The president applauded what he called Comey’s judgment and commitment, according to a White House blog. “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity: That’s your motto,” the President told the men and women…
