By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Secret Service agents have been subpoenaed for more information on an incident involving a pair of agents involved in a drunken accident outside of a White House barricade, The Huffington Post reports. A House of Representatives committee said earlier this week that the subpoenas were necessary because the Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service Director Joe Clancy disputed news reports that two high-ranking agents drunkenly crashed into a gate at the White House. “Previous reports of a crash are inaccurate — there was no crash,” Clancy said at a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, CNN reports. “The video shows the vehicle entering…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did an envelope addressed to the White House contain cyanide? It’s going to take a third round of testing after the initial biological testing came back negative but a follow-up test found a “presumptive positive” for the deadly poison, the Secret Service said. The New York Times reports that the letter…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Serious claims launched against Secret Service agents may not be true. CNN interviewed law enforcement officials who contradicted a Washington Post story that asserted two Secret Service agents crashed through a crime scene at the White House. But according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, the agents did not interrupt…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two high-ranking Secret Service agents accused of striking a White House security fence while being heavily intoxicated interfered with an active bomb investigation, The Washington Post reports. The agents may have even run over the suspicious package, which was dropped off by a woman about a half hour earlier. At 10:25…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the first family were just about to leave for Selma, Alabama, this weekend when a fire broke out outside the White House, prompting a lock-down by Secret Service agents, WHAS 11 ABC reports. The fire was at a vendor cart east of the North Lawn, causing no injuries….
By Katie Pavlich The Hill The much-anticipated White House summit on combating generic extremism is over, and outside of a handful of feel-good statements and speeches, little was accomplished. A number of activists from various organizations were present for discussion, but one person was noticeably absent from the summit: FBI Director James Comey. The FBI…
By Kate Pavlich The Hill The much-anticipated White House summit on combating generic extremism is over, and outside of a handful of feel-good statements and speeches, little was accomplished. A number of activists from various organizations were present for discussion, but one person was noticeably absent from the summit: FBI Director James Comey. The FBI…
