Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama has assembled a feral partnership among law enforcement agencies to improve homeland security, Courthouse News Service reports. The White House Homeland Security Partnership Council and Steering Committee will include the Justice Department, State Department and Homeland Security. A total of 19 agencies will be represented, the Courthouse News Service wrote….
By Dafna Linzer ProPublica A former brothel manager who helped the FBI bust a national prostitution ring. A retired sheriff who inadvertently helped a money launderer buy land. A young woman who mailed ecstasy tablets for a drug-dealing boyfriend, then worked with investigators to bring him All of them and hundreds more were denied pardons…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ten ICE officers filed a lawsuit in federal court last week in hopes of invalidating President Obama’s new initiative to defer the removal of 1.8 million young illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements for at least two years, according to the Heritage Foundation. The lawsuit claims the agents have been ordered…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Washington state man is in custody after the FBI notified the Secret Service of emails threats against President Obama, Reuters reports. The Secret Service described the emails from Anton Caluori, 31, as alarming but didn’t elaborate. Agents found Caluori brandishing a shotgun when they arrived at his home south of Seattle…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to compel Attorney General Eric Holder to release documents related to the botched gun-walking case Operation Fast and Furious, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee plans Monday to file a civil contempt suit today against the AG, CBS News reports. The lawsuit comes after the White House and Justice Department said Holder…
By Cora Currier ProPublica Recent scoops on national security have drawn the ire of Republican lawmakers, who have accused the Obama White House of leaking stories that burnish its image. Obama responded that he has “zero tolerance” for leaks. He also said: “the writers of these articles have all stated unequivocally that they didn’t come…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Sunday that Republicans plan to file a civil suit to force the Justice Department to release of more information on the botched ATF drug-running case known as Fast & Furious, ABC News reports. The suit is the latest effort to force the release of related…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Poor Secret Service. Maligned after the Colombia hooker scandal. And now this. Rep. Barney Frank doesn’t want them at his wedding in July when he marries partner Jim Ready. The New York Times reports that he wanted to invite the President, but he didn’t want the Secret Service there. “If he…
