By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, who served under two presidents, steps down on Friday after a long reign at the head of the agency. Sullivan, who had been director since 2006, had a successful run as director, but his tenure was not without heartburn. He had to deal with the couple…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is preparing sweeping budget cuts that could result in as many as 1,000 Secret Service agents, officers and others being furloughed, the Washington Guardian reports. In an agency wide memo last week, officials warned of reductions that are needed in the event of sequestration, which is an automatic budget cut…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Secret Service dog fell to its death from a parking garage in New Orleans Saturday while on guard for an event featuring Vice President Biden, The Hill reports. Biden was speaking at a fundraiser for Sen. Mary Landrieau when the dog fell. “It was a tragic accident,” Secret Service spokesman Max…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA agent is accused of sending a prostitute to a Secret Service agent in Colombia while the pair were in the country working, the Huffington Post reports, citing a Justice Department report. The reports says a Secret Service supervisory agent received a massage and sex while preparing for President Obama’s visit….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion, something…
Steve Neavling tickltethewire.com Former U.S. presidents would receive lifetime protection from the Secret Service under a bill that the House is expected to vote on Wednesday, the Washington Times reports. Following the Cold War, about two decades ago, Congress approved legislation to cancel Secret Service protection a decade after presidents leave office. But the House…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Franklin, Tenn. man says Secret Service agents knocked down his door in September as part of a probe into the theft of Mitt and Ann Romney’s tax returns from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Problem is, suspect Michael Brown says he has no idea why they’ve come after him. The station reported that…
