James G. Huse is a retired assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service and a retired Inspector General for Social Security. By James G. Huse Jr. ticklethewire.com columnist In the wake of the kabuki surrounding the media focus on the bizarre escapades of White House crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, one fact stands completely indisputable:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service, which has come under a tremendous amount of heat after a couple sneaked into the White House gala, has interviewed the couple, the New York Times reported. The paper reported that the Secret Service interviewed Michaele and Tareq Salahi Friday and Saturday. The interviews come as the Secret…
Ronald Kessler Newsmax.com The fact that party crashers were allowed into a White House State Dinner without being on the guest list is emblematic of the Secret Service’s corner cutting detailed in my book, “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.” It’s…
Whether you agree or not with the decision to name a prosecutor to look into torture methods, it’s heartening to see Atty. Gen. Eric Holder exercise some independence from the White House. Some folks in Washington had expressed concern that he may not be capable of showing independence. By Carrie Johnson and Anne E. Kornblut…
Being tech-savvy shouldn’t be an option these days. All the federal agencies need to jump in the pool. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department relaunched its Web site Wednesday and became the first Cabinet-level agency to follow the tech-savvy White House directives on social media. President Barack Obama’s aides have been…
There’s no sugar coating the ugly truth about the way things were handled. The biting report also confirms outsiders’ suspicions that the White House undermined the Justice Department’s mission. By Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Bush White House so strictly controlled access to its warrantless eavesdropping program that…
Funny how those emails seemed to turn up just at the right time. By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to…
