By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Expressing deep unease about the UK’s restricting the scope of anti-terrorism “stop and search” powers, the U.S, plans to send about 1,000 security agents to the 2012 London Olympics, which will include a contingent of about 500 FBI agent, reports Adelaide Now. “We are not equal partners in this,” said an unnamed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has swelled so much in size since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that the D.C. headquarters is bursting at the seams. The Government Accountability Office has determined that FBI headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building is deteriorating and in need of repair, much of attributable to staff growth since…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration has thrown around gobbs of cash for airport security since Sept. 11, but lawmakers, auditors and national security experts are questioning the wisdom behind some purchases, according to the Washington Post. Reporter Dana Hedgpeth reports that TSA spent about $30 million alone just on devices…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm that became a toxic symbol of America in Afghanistan and Iraq, may be getting a bigger break than it ever imagined. James Risen of the New York Times reports that after nearly four years the federal government’s investigations and prosecutions against the Blackwater Worldwide…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even the FBI director doesn’t get out of reporting for jury duty. Director Robert S. Mueller III showed up Monday for jury duty at D.C. Superior Court, the city’s criminal court, the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reported. Mueller, who showed up with an “ear-pieced security guy in tow”,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Denver has a new home and it’s built to fend off unwanted guests. The Associated Press reports that the new field office is a four-story, glass tower with a lobby that has bomb proof glass, fencing that can stop a moving truck and pillars that can withstand a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the latest complications in airport security. The Detroit Free Press reported that a body of Islamic scholars known as the Figh Council of North America has issued a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from passing through airport body scanners. The paper reported that the ruling, known as a…
