Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When you hand over your credit card, be careful what happens to it. The Secret Service is reporting an increasing number of cases of credit card “skimming,” or thieves copying information on the card, the South Jersey Times reports. The information, such as the name, card number and expiration date, often is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What started as a prank call ended with two frightened teens and a visit by the Secret Service. The teens, ages 13 and 14, acknowledged they made a threat to President Obama but had no intention of harming anyone, King 5 reports. No federal charges are planned, the Secret Service said….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The NAACP isn’t clowning around. The group is outraged after a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair donned a mask of President Obama while an announcer riled up the crowed by suggesting that the bull should run down the clown, Opposing Views reports. “The activities at the Missouri State Fair targeting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The endless search for answers in the JFK assassination was the impetus for yet another film. “JFK: The Smoking Gun” pursues this question: Did a Secret Service Agent accidentally shoot President Kennedy in Dallas in November of 1963? The docudrama that will air on ReelzChannel is based on the book, “Mortal Error:…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 4-minute trailer of Roland Emmerich’s thriller “White House Down” was released with much fanfare. The film focuses on a capitol policeman, played by Channing Tatum, who was denied a dream job with the Secret Service. But while taking his girl on a tour of the White House, Tatum’s character, John Cale,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service say it has cracked one of the largest ever international money-laundering schemes, Fox News reports. Authorities in Costa Rica, Spain and New York have arrested five people accused in a $6 billion money laundering scheme involving an online company based in Costa Rica The company, named Liberty Reserve,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Vice President Joe Biden is charging rent to his taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection so the agents can live in a cottage next to his house in Delaware, The Inquisitr reports. Under the rental agreement, which was discovered when the vice president filed his tax return, Biden receives $2,200 a month, the same…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It created a buzz in D.C. before the announcement. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced his intention to name Julia A. Pierson as the 23rd Director of the U.S. Secret Service and the first woman to head the agency. The following is a press release that was posted on the Secret…
