Top Dog for the Killer Zetas Cartel is Captured

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top dog of the killer Zetas drug cartel in Mexico was captured, Tracy Wilkinson of the LA Times reports. The Times reports that Mexican naval special forces seized Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, in Nuevo Laredo, a border city across from Laredo, Texas, in the state of Tamaulipas. She…

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President Obama to Search for New Homeland Security Secretary to Replace Napolitano

  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…

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Environmentalists Concerned About Growth of Border Patrol

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Add environmentalists to the groups of people opposing the growth of the Border Patrol. The inundation of 20,000 agents could irrevocably damage the Southern Arizona’s deserts and wildlife, according to the Siera Club Borderlands, which has a Tucson office. Border Patrol is not subject to environmental laws along the international border, creating…

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NSA Leaker Snowden Has More Sensitive Information about U.S. Surveillance, Journalist Says

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  NSA Leaker Edward Snowden has information that could cause more damage to the U.S. than “anyone else has ever had in the history” of the country, according to the Guardian journalist who reported about the widespread surveillance. Columnist Glenn Greenwald said the U.S. should be careful. “But that’s not his goal,” Greenwald…

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