By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent told a Senate committee Tuesday that Homeland Security is fudging border statistics to make the border seem safer than it actually is, The Business Insider reports. “I want to be crystal clear – the border is not secure,” said border agent Chris Cabrera in prepared testimony before…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Members of FBI surveillance teams are getting fed up with what they say are internal politics and nepotism that are distracting from the mission of tracking terrorists, spies and mobsters, The Washington Times reports. The newspaper reviewed FBI memos that showed at least three relatives of FBI supervisors landing jobs…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A physics professor who claims she was retaliated against for alerting the FBI to illegal activities at the California Institute of Technology’s NASA lab sued the school Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Sandra Troian alleges in the suit that the school violated the whistleblower policy by trying to drive her out….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department outlined new changes that will make it easier for agents and employees of the FBI to blow the whistle on misconduct within the bureau, the Wall Street Journal reports. The idea is to ensure complaints are handled swiftly and fairly. President Obama directed the rule change in 2012…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two powerful U.S. senators are getting impatient with a long overdue Justice Department report that is supposed to examine the effectiveness of the FBI’s whistleblower protections for bureau employees. The Oregonian reports that Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expressed frustration that the report has not yet been released, even…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When is a federal whistleblower allowed to release sensitive information to the public? That’s the question before the Supreme Court, which must decide whether a federal air marshal was unfairly fired for blowing the whistle to the media about a security plan that he disliked, the Washington Post reports. Robert J. MacLean,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who blew the whistle on the Fast and Furious gun investigation, said he leaked the information because he feared his superiors in Washington would unfairly blame the problems on his office, Main Justice reports. During an Arizona State Bar disciplinary proceeding on March 27, Burke said…
By Jim Gilmore The Washington Times Our country is currently in a struggle between the need to protect our citizens from terrorism and the need to protect the civil liberties of our citizens. How can we do both while not sacrificing either? During my five years as chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security,…
