Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura M. Laughlin, head of the FBI’s office in Seattle for a decade, resigned abruptly Monday. The Seattle Times reports that Laughlin retirement was anything but routine. Laughlin, who joined the FBI in 1985, filed suit for sexual discrimination againt the bureau in 2011, claiming she was passed up for at least…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has finally confirmed that a civil rights activist who disappeared while supporting Native Americans in South Dakota four decades was murdered, the Buffalo News reports. Roy Robinson went missing after arriving at Wounded Knee to support the American Indian Movement’s fight against the federal government. The discovery wasn’t easy for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alarming letter from the Department of Justice accuses Missoula County, Montana prosecutors of all but ignoring sexual assault cases. Buzzfeed reports that the Missoula County Attorney’s Office only took action on 17 of 85 police reports of sexual assaults of adult women between January 2008 and May 2012. “[Female] sexual assault…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security hopes to build a national database based on information gathered from license-plate readers, the Washington Post reports. The idea is to help locate and arrest “absconders and criminal aliens” while also reducing surveillance hours. DHS spokesman Gillian Christensen emphasized that the database would “only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recently fired TSA supervisor at Charlotte Douglas Airport is accused for the third time of stealing from travelers. WSOC TV reports that Angel Caban is under fire against after he was terminated last month following allegations that he stole gift cards and iPads from the North Carolina’s airport lost and found….
