By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service is testing drones in an effort to determine what to do when a rogue one is flying over head, The Associated Press reports. During the next several weeks, the Secret Service will send drones over Washington D.C. The sessions come a little more than a month after a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service is planning to hold drone exercises in the Washington D.C. area over the next few weeks, Bloomberg reports. The agency said in a statement Tuesday that it plans “a series of exercises involving unmanned aircraft systems” in the restricted airspace of Washington. Secret Service declined further comment. The meeting…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When it comes to drones, it’s safe to say that law enforcement has looked the other way on many occasions. Not this time. A man accused of operating a drone that crash landed at the White House last week may be charged for violating national defense airspace, CNN reports. The flyer,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A year after Secret Service agents fatally shot Mariam Carey in Washington D.C., many of the circumstances leading to her death remain a mystery, Gawker reports. The 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut made a U-turn at a White House checkpoint before she was gunned down by the Secret Service and Capitol…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For better or worse, the defining moment of Marion Barry’s storied political career was an FBI bust that revealed the D.C. mayor smoking crack in a hotel room in 1990. “Bitch set me up,” Barry said of the woman who was a part of the sting. Barry, who also was a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent accused of tampering with evidence has prompted federal prosecutors to begin the process of dismissing indictments against 28 defendants, the Washington Post reports. Half of the defendants were already serving sentences. Many of the defendants will be in U.S. District Court on Friday for a hearing. The U.S….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Whoever takes over the embattled Secret Service will face an insurmountable task. They must handle plunging morale, a tarnished reputation, budget holes and plenty of blunders that led to the resignation of Director Julia Pierson, the Wall Street Journal reports. How disgruntled are employees? A 2013 survey found that Secret Service…
By Boston Globe Editorial Board For the federal agency tasked with protecting the president, it’s embarrassing enough that a man could scale the White House fence and make it well into the executive mansion before being apprehended. But the Secret Service’s defensive response to the incident, including withholding key information about the breach, is a…
