Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Customers and Border Protection has been helping illegal immigrants find their missing children across the country at taxpayers’ expense, the Washington Times reports. A federal judge in Texas said the agency has sent agents on numerous flights to find the children, which enables the illegal activity. In the latest case, the…
By Editorial Board The Arizona Republic You might shrug off concerns about how the Border Patrol operates. After all, it’s just the border. Migrants. Smugglers. Lawbreakers. It’s not about you and me. Well, yes it is. We hold police to high standards to protect everyone’s civil rights. Exempting the nation’s largest police force…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The high life is expensive. Just ask Lorne Leslie “Hammer” Jones, a former Border Patrol agent. Jones was found guilty Friday of helping smugglers enter California from Mexico to help finance his ritzy lifestyle, UPI reports. Feds say Jones took as much as a half-million dollars in payoffs in exchange for aiding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran ICE agent is accused of accepting bribes to help smuggle illegal immigrants into the country by claiming they were witnesses to a drug investigation, CBS Miami reports. That’s one allegation facing Special Agent Juan Martinez, who appeared in court Friday on 12 criminal counts, including extortion and bribery. Martinez also…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A high-ranking FBI agent made a series of baffling mistakes. For one, the agent filed a sensitive internal manual about secret interrogation practices with the Library of Congress, which means anyone with library card get access it without any redactions, Mother Jones reports. While the manual sat in a public The ACLU…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days after Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni took a plea deal and implicated the Trenton Mayor Tony Mack in a corruption scheme, professionally looking signs began popping up that displayed “JoJo” and a rat, NJ.com reports. The FBI is taking the signs seriously. “It’s more than crazy, it’s a serious crime,” Giorgianni’s attorney,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After more than a dozen Secret Service agents and officers were implicated in a prostitution scandal, the agency’s inspector general sought to determine whether the male-dominated agency had widespread problems with sexual misconduct. The conclusion from the long-awaited report: The Secret Service does not have a widespread problem with sexual misconduct,…
