By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some cartoons simply aren’t funny. The Secret Service and FBI are investigating who faxed a racially charged cartoon to the White House and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex), the Houston Chronicle reported. The cartoon depicted nooses and lynching posts, the paper reported. The headline included a racial epithet and the cartoon…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-First Lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at age 93, had fans in the Secret Service. Ex-Secret Service agent Mike Shannon, who protected the Fords, and showed up Saturday at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids to pay respect, told WOOD-TV that Betty Ford was like “a mother” to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These Tweets got the Secret Service’s attention. CBS News reports that the Secret Service said Monday it will investigate and try to figure out who hacked into Fox’s political Twitter account and posted multiple Tweets claiming President Obama had been assassinated in Iowa and the shooter was unknown. CBS reported that…
Secret Service investigating counterfeit money: fox10tv.com
By Ed Pilkington The London Guardian NEW YORK — The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers. A Guardian investigation today reveals…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President George W. Bush and wife Laura continue to get the occasional unexpected visitor at their home in Dallas. The station WTSP reports that a mentally ill woman reached the front yard of the ex-president’s Dallas home on Friday afternoon and was taken into custody for questioning. Sources told the station…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service may have touched a on a sensitive nerve with the San Francisco Chronicle. The agency asked the paper if it could monitor its phone traffic during a visit by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday. She had gone to the paper to talk to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has jumped into the fray to try and help two Secret Service agents from being sued in a case linked to former vice president Dick Cheney. The Associated Press reports that the Department of Justice filed documents in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver siding…
