By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The man shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent last week was wanted for murder, KMVT.com reports. Investigators said a man was crossing the border illegally in Sumas in Washington when the shooting occurred. “The subject refused the agents commands then assaulted one of the agents with an unknown incapacitating…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Less than two months after the FBI added a Washington-area cabbie to the bureau’s “Most Wanted Terrorist ” list, the Somali-born U.S. citizen was arrested and taken into custody of the Somali government, Reuters reports. Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, was added to the list for allegedly providing support to the Somali-based…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The man who jumped over a White House fence and burst into the White House in September managed to avoid security because of a litany of problems with the Secret Service, CNN reports. A Homeland Security report found numerous failures that allowed Omar Gonzalez to so easily access the White House….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI created a bogus Seattle Times web page and posted a fake news story in an attempt to plant software on the computer of a juvenile suspected of making bomb threats at a high school in 2007, the Seattle Times reports. The discovery by the ACLU was revealed on Twitter…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Army veteran who climbed over a White House fence and made a mockery of security was twice interviewed by Secret Service agents earlier this summer in Virginia and Washington, the Associated Press reports. Yet during those interviews, the Secret Service determined Omar J. Gonzalez was not a security threat. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thirteen years ago today, I was walking down Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on my way to work, about to get on the subway, when I ran into a friend who asked if I had heard about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I hadn’t. By the time…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thirteen years ago today, I was walking down Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on my way to work, about to get on the subway, when I ran into a friend who asked if I had heard about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I hadn’t. By the time…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI was able to get a United Airlines flight to turn around mid-flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Beijing to arrest a passenger accused of parental kidnapping, the Washington Post reports. The mother, Wenking Liu, was arrested Thursday evening at Dulles International Airport, where the plan returned. Liu was…
