By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Every day, thousands of federal law enforcement agents wake up, grab their gun and badge and a cup of java, orange juice or tea and go out into the world to protect the public and enforce the laws. Unfortunately, every year, a few step over the line — way over the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After more than a dozen Secret Service agents and officers were implicated in a prostitution scandal, the agency’s inspector general sought to determine whether the male-dominated agency had widespread problems with sexual misconduct. The conclusion from the long-awaited report: The Secret Service does not have a widespread problem with sexual misconduct,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just as the holidays kick into high gear, Target is reporting a security breach involving stolen credit card and debit card information for millions of customers, the New York Times reports. The Secret Service is investigating a breach that apparently occurred on the day after Thanksgiving and may still be happening. Authorities…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As Homeland Security’s watchdog, Charles K. Edwards was tasked with exposing wrongdoing. That was until Tuesday, when officials said Edwards, the department’s inspector general, was transferred because of allegations that he abused his position, the Los Angeles Times reports. Among the accusations: He hired his wife, misused travel funds and tried to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who recently wrote a book about his experience with the federal agency, said the government’s growing bureaucracy is “very, very dangerous,” the Blaze reports. Bongino, who wrote “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from it All,” was speaking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man was arrested after he was spotted throwing a suspicious object at the White House, the New York Daily News reports. The suspect was arrested soon after he threw the object over the White House’s north fence line at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. A closer examination found that the object was “not…
The Daily Astoria Editorial Can political protests be restricted so that political leaders don’t have to listen? This is one way of framing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court when it considers this term whether Secret Service agents were right in ordering protesters to be removed from President George W. Bush’s sight and hearing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dan Bongino’s book about his time as a high-level Secret Service agent under President Obama is taking off and has reached the New York Times bestseller list. “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All” tells the story of Washington insiders shielding the president from…
