Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks revealed flaws in the U.S.’s national security. So on March 1, 2003, Congress passed the Homeland Security Act, which created the Homeland Security Department. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano described it as “the largest reorganization of the federal government since the Department of Defense,” wrote Fox News. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If sequestration cuts aren’t restored, they will cost the Homeland Security Department about $3.2 billion this fiscal year, Fierce Homeland Security reports. To make up for the lost money, the department, which reached 10 years old March 1, would need to cut more than 5% across the board. Other federal agencies face…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the federal government doesn’t act soon, it may lose the chance to stamp out recreational pot laws in Colorado and Washington, cautioned eight former DEA officials, the Associated Press reports. Although voters legalized small amounts of possession last year in those states, the law still conflicts with a federal ban on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 26-year-old typist for the Treasury Department was denied a work pass for the White House in 1945 but she never knew why. Turns out, the Secret Service reported that Frances Levy may be a communist, according to a four-page report from an archivist, the Washington Post reports. Levy’s family said she…
Garrett M. Graff Washington Post The FBI lists its official address as 935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, as if one could wander by the angular, concrete, block-size headquarters without noticing the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The aging 11-story monstrosity — an especially ugly example of the Brutalist movement in architecture — is nearing the end of its…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents raided the Homer Police Department in Louisiana Friday as part of an investigation into the department, the Shreveport Times reports. Agents executed a search warrant announced, the FBI confirmed to the Times. The nature of the investigation is unclear but officers were told to turn over their Tasers, the Times…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When 29-year-old Clay Alexander heard the first gunshots, the ATF agent quickly realized, “They are shooting at me.” Alexander, who was shot in the legs, spoke at length to the Tyler Morning Telegraph about the Feb. 28, 1993, raid on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. “It was very bizarre. At that point,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation because of looming budget cuts, not a few hundred as originally reported, Catholic Online writes.Since Feb. 15, about 1,000 illegal immigrants considered low risk have been released each week, according to Catholic Online. The Obama administration said it was not aware of…
