By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With just seven months to go until election time, President Obama is filling the final U.S. Attorney vacancies around the country. In a White House press release issued late last week, the president announced the nominations of Patrick A. Miles, Jr. for the Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids and…
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — “It’s hard to promote black nationalism when you have a black man in the White House,” Thomas Bailey said on Jan. 6, 2009, weeks before Barack Obama was sworn in as the first African-American President of the United States. Bailey, a Maryland inmate serving life for murder,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Occupy protestors in Washington, D.C., drew the Secret Service out after throwing a smoke bomb on the White House lawn, reports KSTC-TV. U.S. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says there were no arrests made when agents dispersed the crowd on Tuesday night. Still, the White House was on lock down, as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Truthfully, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, didn’t come close. Nonetheless, he was indicted by a D.C. federal grand jury on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate President Obama on Nov. 11. A 17-count indictment against Ortega-Hernandez, who has been in custody since his arrest November 16, also includes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not have been the brightest of assassination plots considering President Obama wasn’t even in town when Oscar Ramiro Oretego-Hernandez allegedly fired at the White House. Nonetheless, authorities believe the intent to kill Obama was there. He’s been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. CBS News reports that a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It wasn’t a classic assassination attempt. Nonetheless, CNN reported Thursday that fed prosecutors charged an Idaho man accused of shooting at the White House with attempting to assassinate President Obama. The president was not at the White House at the time. He is suspected of being responsible for two bullets found…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A bullet hit the White House, but was stopped by ballistic glass, reports the Associated Press. Because the investigation is ongoing Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan declined to answer questions about the incident, including the room of the hit window are the caliber of the bullet, AP reported. Additional rounds were found…
