By Miami Herald Editorial Board Last year, the White House was breached twice. In the movie Olympus Has Fallen, Gerard Butler faced off against Dylan McDermott and a band of Korean terrorists. In White House Down, Channing Tatum fought to save President Jamie Foxx from a band of mercenaries. In both movies, the bad guys…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service Director Julia Pierson accepted full responsibility for the recent White House intrusion and pledged to improve security at a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pierson divulged that Omar J. Gonzalez, who was armed with a knife, made it deeper into the White House on…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Omar J. Gonzalez was armed with a knife when he managed to make it much deeper into the White House mansion than previously disclosed, the New York Times reports. The 42-year-old made it to the ceremonial East Room after overpowering a Secret Service agent inside the North Portico entrance. Gonzalez finally…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an embarrassment and failure of the Secret Service. An Army veteran with a pocketknife scaled the White House fence and entered the executive mansion Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports that Secret Service is reviewing ways to better protect the White House. The suspect on Friday, Omar J. Gonzalez,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jack Riley, the head of the DEA’s Chicago division, is headed to a top post in Washington D.C., the Associated Press reports. The 56-year-old, who has shed light on the influence of Mexican cartels on the Midwest, has been named the DEA’s chief of operations. The No. 3 post at the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com American journalist Theo Curtis said he might not be alive if not for the FBI. FBI agents in the Washington D.C. field office had been working on getting Curtis released from Syria, where he had been held by an Islamist group, the Washington Post reports. The FBI “deserves some credit for…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government wants to hear your concerns about the location of the new FBI headquarters. The General Services Administration scheduled public hearings next month to gather feedback on an Environmental Impact Statement on each of the three sites, the Washington Business-Journal reports. The first meeting is Sept. 22 near the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal investigation of Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is zeroing in on allegations that campaign staffers promised donors that their contributions wouldn’t be recorded publicly, the Washington Post reports. The idea was to collect money under-the-table so the incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty wouldn’t retaliate, the Post reported, citing three anonymous sources….
