By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent, who rose through the ranks to become a deputy assistant director, is on trial in federal court in Washington in what Bloomberg news reports is the first prosecution of a foreign bribery based on a government sting run inside the U.S. Ex-agent R. Patrick Caldwell is…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The president’s entourage rolled through a small Massachusetts airport last year like an untamed rock band wreaking havoc in a hotel room, causing more than half a million dollars in damages. Or so the airport alleges. Marlborough Airport Properties Inc. filed a suit in a U.S. district court this week against the…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Secret Service James Richard Bartee, Jr., who protected President George H.W. Bush, has announced that he’s running for sheriff in Oconee County, S.C. in the Republican primary, the Independent Mail reported. The paper, which described Bartee as a “54-year-old private investigator and aikido dojo owner” quoted him as saying: ”I decided…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sounds like a case of displaced anger. After all, why Joe Biden? Justin Alan Woodward was charged with threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden after allegedly posting a message on the White House website, the Associated Press reported. He faces a detention hearing Wednesday in Hawaii. AP reports that Secret…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s a downside to the White House being hip to social media. The Associated Press reports that the Secret Service is investigating three threatening messages that were posted on the White House’s Facebook page. The messages, first reported by WNBC in New York, included a photo of Osama bin Laden and…
By PAUL BEDARD and LAUREN FOX U.S. News & World Report Racism and the nation’s white hot political environment that has sparked bitter division in Washington and a political assassination attempt in Arizona have raised concerns about President Obama’s safety on the campaign trail, according to a former top U.S. marshal and retired…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes the Secret Service acts like over-protective parents when it comes to its protectees. Vice President Joe Biden complains in the October issue of Car and Driver Magazine that the Secret Service won’t let him drive around town in his beloved 1967 green Corvette. “The Secret Service won’t let me drive…
