Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s nomination for second in command at the Department of Homeland Security fended off allegations Thursday that he helped Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother get a special visa for foreign investors, The Los Angeles Times reports. The nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas is important because he could become the temporary…
By Eugene Robinson Washington Post From the evidence so far, there’s no good reason to let the National Security Agency (NSA) continue its massively intrusive practice of logging our private phone calls. Congress should pull the plug. I’m not ignoring all the officials, including President Obama, who swear that the electronic snooping has foiled…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama today plans to make the long-anticipated announcement that he’s nominating James B. Comey, a senior Justice department under President George W. Bush, to take the helm at the FBI, White House officials told The New York Times. The administration’s plan is to convince the Senate to conform Comey by…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A pregnant Texas actress is accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and falsely accusing her husband of sending them, Fox News reports. During interviews with the FBI, Shannon Guess Richardson, 35, accused her husband of sending the letters and then later claimed he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An investigation into who sent Ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and New York City Mayor Bloomberg has zeroed in on a Texan man who is married to actress Shannon Roger Guess, a zombie on the “Walking Dead,” The New York Daily News reports. Nathan Richardson 33, was busted after his pregnant wife…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama’s reported pick of former Justice official James Comey for FBI director has triggered many reports in the media. Here is a sampling of some of those. The Christian Science Monitor: With the reported pick of James Comey to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, President…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama appears to have opted for a former Justice Department official from the Bush days to head the FBI. The New York Times, citing a person with knowledge of the selection, reported that James B. Comey, a hedge fund executive and a former senior Justice Department official under President…
