Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The White House is using our beloved four-legged friends to help secure the area around the White House, PBS reports. Secret Service recently began deploying specialized canine units among the general public for the first time. “This is just one of the proactive, visible security methods being utilized,” said Secret Service spokesman…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service wants a full investigation launched into claims that agents were forced to leave their posts protecting the White House complex in 2011 so they could monitor a friend of the agency’s former director. The Washington Post reports that Director Julia Pierson is calling for Homeland Security’s new inspector general…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two quick-acting Secret Service agents are being credited with saving the life of a 59-year-old woman who collapsed in front of the White House, ABC News reports. The first patrolling Secret Service Uniformed Division officer on scene discovered the woman had no pulse Thursday afternoon. “He assessed the situation, she was unconscious…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After two deadly shooting rampages at Ford Hood in Texas, some congressional members said military leaders should be permitted to carry firearms on the base, the New York Post reports. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul called it “a common sense idea.” “That would be a deterrent, No. 1 — and No….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man was arrested after he was spotted throwing a suspicious object at the White House, the New York Daily News reports. The suspect was arrested soon after he threw the object over the White House’s north fence line at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. A closer examination found that the object was “not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fair to say, it wasn’t easy getting there. But after all the political wrangling, B. Todd Jones was sworn in as the new director ATF at a ceremony Thursday at the White House. With his confirmation, Jones, who was the acting director, becomes the agency’s first permanent director in seven years….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Every split second counts in a mass shooting. So the FBI, acting on a White House directive following a school shooting last year, is training local police how to handle a mass shooting, ABC News reports. The idea is to establish a standardized strategy to respond to shootings. Apart from the tactical…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama soon will have to replace Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after she announced Friday that she’s resigning to head the University of California system, the Washington Post reports. Napolitano plans to resign in September, which gives Obama a little more than a month to find a replacement. The White…
