FBI Searches Home of Former Reagan Aide Robert McFarlane for Evidence of Sudanese Relationship

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  FBI agents searched the apartment of a national security adviser under former President Reagan on suspicions that he violated federal law by lobbying on behalf of the Sudanese government, according to an Associated Press story in the Washington Post. Agents searching the apartment of Robert McFarlane found classified White House documents and handwritten…

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More Than 100 Members of Congress Urge FBI to Expand Tracking of Hate Crimes

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Support for tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab-Americans gained traction Thursday after more than 100 members of Congress sent a letter urging the FBI to take action, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports. The letter urging the FBI to begin tracking hate crimes against those groups comes after the Department of…

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Congress Blasts Homeland Security for Failing to Produce Better Method to Assess Border

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Democrats and Republicans expressed frustration this week that Homeland Security officials never made good on a promise two years ago to produce more reliable standards to assess border security, the New York Times reports. Not only did Homeland Security fail to devise an accurate method to evaluate the border, it isn’t even…

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